Pakistan's Truces with the Taliban
From Bill Roggio's The Fourth Rail:
Pakistan's failure to commit the needed resources and political will to uproot al-Qaeda and the Taliban in the Northwest Frontier Province and Baluchistan in 2001, 2004 and 2006 will haunt the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan for years to come.
According to Adnkronos International, the Taliban is now "calling the shots in North and South Waziristan." The Taliban and Pakistan have agreed on a truce that ensures the Pakistani Army "will not carry out operations against them" in North Waziristan. The tribal Jirga confirms this, and Pakistani troops have now withdrawn from North Waziristan.
These truces are fueling the resurgence of Taliban and al-Qaeda in Pakistan, and by default Afghanistan (also see "Lost Territories.") ...
Read the whole thing here.
Pakistan's failure to commit the needed resources and political will to uproot al-Qaeda and the Taliban in the Northwest Frontier Province and Baluchistan in 2001, 2004 and 2006 will haunt the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan for years to come.
According to Adnkronos International, the Taliban is now "calling the shots in North and South Waziristan." The Taliban and Pakistan have agreed on a truce that ensures the Pakistani Army "will not carry out operations against them" in North Waziristan. The tribal Jirga confirms this, and Pakistani troops have now withdrawn from North Waziristan.
These truces are fueling the resurgence of Taliban and al-Qaeda in Pakistan, and by default Afghanistan (also see "Lost Territories.") ...
Read the whole thing here.
posted by Thomas Joscelyn at 3:40 PM
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