It wouldn't, because they attack military or diplomatic targets in Afghanistan.
Also, the population in Afghanistan is far more conservative and pro-radical than in Pakistan. Its easier for them to gain support there.
By your logic, since the Taliban should be claiming responsibility for attacking official targets, and teh TTP has always done that in Pakistan, then the attack on the police in Islamabad could only have been India, since that is the only other party that gains by destabilizing Pakistan
Look, its quite simple. Pakistan doesn't want the Karzai regime which is pro-India.
To be more specific, the rabidly anti-India and pro-Jehadi elements within the Pakistan regime don't want the Karzai regime.
The current regime is extremely harmful to Pakistani interests, or so the Pakistani hardliners think. So its quite obvious that they would do their best to destabilize the current regime.
Its not that simple, because bombing the Indian embassy does nothing to overthrow Karzai. It only seems a simple explanation to you because it fits your bias.
Karzai will be overthrown much more effectively by letting him do what he is - making a mess of governing the country - like I said, his administration's corruption and involvement in drugs and crimes, and the Afghan Taliban's activities have done far more to destabilize Afghanistan than attacks on Embassy's would.
This argument of yours of "overthrowing Karzai by destabilizing Afghanistan through attacking the Indian Embassy" is ludicrous.
It isn't because of the burden of evidence that significant pro-Taliban elements exist within the Pakistani establishment who support them for their ideology.
Sure, Pakistan is suffering the Taliban. But then why is it so weak in dealing with them?
There is no such evidence. The ISI has pretty much been under the control of Musharraf loyalists for several years now. Under Kiyani it was instrumental in catching those responsible for attempting to assassinate him. Currently it is headed by a Musharraf confidante (Nadeem Taj). Officers in the ISI are seconded for 3 to 5 year terms. The appointment of the DG has been typically done by the PM or President.
There is no omnipresent pro-Taliban cabal running the ISI, nor is there one responsible for the appointments to it. Officers get rotated in and out.
From an article in the CFR:
"Nevertheless, experts generally suspect Pakistan still provides some support to the Taliban, though probably not to the extent it did in the past. “If they’re giving them support,” Gannon says, “it’s access back and forth [to Afghanistan] and the ability to find safe haven.”
How much control does Pakistan’s political leadership have over the ISI?
Experts say Musharraf exercises firm control over his intelligence agency. “I do not accept the thesis that the ISI is a rogue organization,” Milam says. “It’s a disciplined army unit that does what it’s told, though it may push the envelope sometimes.” With a reported staff of 10,000, ISI is hardly monolithic: “Like in any secret service, there are rogue elements,” says Frederic Grare, a South Asia expert and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment. He points out that many of the ISI’s agents have ethnic and cultural ties to Afghan insurgents, and naturally sympathize with them."
I pretty much agree with that assessment. There might be some rogue agent activity, but there is nothign to support that oft repeated red herring of a "state within a state" when you study how the organization operates.
Its a thread I started in this subforum. Link to the report is here. I don't agree with all of the conclusions, but some good information in there nonetheless.
South Asia Studies. June 13, 2008. © ISSA.
Look, it sits squarely in India's interests to support the current democratic government in Pakistan. Its India's only hope of keeping Kashmir stable.
The last thing it wants, as I said, is for Pakistan to fall into the hands of extremists.
Its quite well known that the Taliban operates with impunity within Pakistan's borders. The US has been complaining for ages that Taliban fighters flee into Pakistan away from their reach.
There have also been several pieces that squarely blame elements within the Pakistani establishment for aiding the Taliban.
Also, the last thing India wants is to sabotage its own efforts in that country.
The Taliban operates because we have domestic compulsions that have to be dealt with, there are also certain Taliban groups like those of Mullah Nazir and Haji Namdar that Pakistan openly deals with and does not want touched - because they appear to have little interest in violently enforcing Shariah in Pakistan like the TTP or Mullah FM in Swat did, and act as a counterweight to the more violent TTP.
But that does not mean that the GoP/ISI is actively training them and sponsoring them to attack NATO or Afghan troops.
