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its not, dam INDIAN DEFENCE FOURM, where your typical logic can work, for disscusion about internal isdues of pakistan , you must be a pakistani citizen, which you are not?
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just read that, its 2nd time we have done that?
after russia, that USA, eho is next, INDIA? lolzz
Book Review: ‘The Wrong Enemy’ by Carlotta Gall
Mike Mullen, called the Haqqani network—the group responsible for some of the worst violence in Afghanistan, including an attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul that year—”a veritable arm” of the ISI.
Ms. Gall’s long years of reporting for the New York Times from the front lines of the war are clear in this book, particularly in her vivid reconstruction of how things went rapidly downhill after the easy U.S.-led victories over the Taliban at the end of 2001. The West’s handpicked leader, Hamid Karzai, turned out to be a lot better at politicking than at running the country. As aid dollars poured in, corruption in the Afghan government soared. The Bush administration, distracted by preparations for the war in Iraq, took its eye off the ball in Afghanistan, argues Ms. Gall. Most important, reassured by Pakistani assistance in nabbing key al Qaeda figures, the U.S. was slow to realize that Islamabad was playing both sides of the street.
Only in 2007, more than five years after the war began, did the CIA begin to pay attention to the deep ties between the ISI and the Taliban. By then, the fundamentalist group, which had all but disappeared in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. invasion, had made an impressive comeback in its original stronghold of southern Afghanistan, reclaiming freedom of movement and seemingly able to strike targets at will. Even today, despite some gains against the Taliban following President Obama’s decision to send additional troops in 2009, the group remains a powerful force. Just last month, Taliban fighters attacked Kabul’s Serena Hotel, killing nine people, including an AFP photographer and a former Paraguayan diplomat. As Ms. Gall notes, the Taliban’s refuge across the border in Pakistan, where it recruits from militant madrassas and where fighters recuperate between battles, makes the group awfully hard to vanquish.
And what of Pakistan’s relationship to al Qaeda and its founder?
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hence whole pakistan knows this govt came into power by fake & buyed mandate. they will try to sell, anything & everything, as fast as they can to get the cash into thier swiss accounts?
