1) Afghanistan, in particular, continued to experience aggressive and coordinated attacks by the Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani Network (HQN), and other insurgent and terrorist groups. A number of these attacks were planned and launched from safe havens in Pakistan.
2) The Pakistani military undertook operations against groups that conducted attacks within Pakistan such as TTP, but did not take action against other groups such as Lashkar e-Tayyiba, which continued to operate, train, rally, propagandize, and fundraise in Pakistan. Afghan Taliban and HQN leadership continued to find safe haven in Pakistan, and although Pakistan military operations disrupted the actions of these groups, it did not directly target them.
3) India remained a target of terrorist attacks, including operations launched by Maoist insurgents and domestic and transnational groups. The level of terrorist violence was substantially unchanged from 2013. Indian authorities continued to blame Pakistan for supporting terrorists operating in Jammu and Kashmir.
The issue that seems to go unnoticed is this report is till end 2014 while the operation has continued onwards into 2015 and has emptied all the strong holds bar one which will be eventually cleansed also. The report has a very superficial analysis based on too broad a view to be considered pertinent to the Pakistani situation.
The issue of opening fronts is something that seems to be missed here, understanding that fighting on one front at a time is a safe option and it has paid dividends in terms of decreased attacks. The roots are being dug out, after which one can see the effects in a slow manner because different groups have different threat priorities.
There is a triage practiced by doctors in medicine, in which we grade severity of patients and prescribe the next best step. Here the triage has clearly stated that the TTP and the belt along the Pak-Afghan border was the main target.
The assumption that everything can be fixed in a single year or that operations which were intelligence based in cities should be divulged is stupidity on part of the report or malicious attempts to degrade the attempts of the war that is being fought. There are too many players of childish games here who forget that units can not be created at whim, but are limited and have too be used in terms of degrees of importance.
As far as Indian role is, it is anything but positive.
@levina the basis of the rhetoric that started from India, and the continuous badgering has forced Pakistan to move away from fully committing to the war against terrorists and instead focus on strengthening border patrols. Rather then decrease forces reciprocally along border areas, India has intesfied the arms race, moved move equipment to the borders and the statements about terrorism are the most troubling because India has repeatedly termed Pakistani army as part of the terrorists and when it said terrorists will be fought with terrorists it has awakened the very strong possibility that there is a strong Indian involvement in the attacks and a public declaration has left no doubt in mind.
As far as India is concerned it has issues which it constantly ignores and terms the problems as Pakistani born, and does not admit to any problems and its own biases and fragmented society, the constant forced actions to subdue the minorities will come back to bite India and they will again blame Pakistan rather then the policies which led to the outbursts.
India wants actions against terrorists but has ignored the protocols of law and now blames Pakistan which has held a person for years in jail without concrete proof. Do you honestly expect India to accept any statements extracted in a Pakistani jail without verifying them. What they are doing is playing on the feelings of the people while knowing that there is no court( other then the one who said that the evidence was incomplete and circumstantial but hanged Afzal Guru because of the feelings of the people) can give sentences based on second hand evidence and no real evidence. They play a game with the media and use it to make people forget procedures when they want expecting others to do the same.
@Irfan Baloch @Horus @TankMan @Slav Defence @syedali73 @WAJsal your views please on my analysis.
