RAW paranoia haunts some even in dreams.
Editorial: At last, Pakistan zeroes in on Baitullah Mehsud
The foremost threat is internal and it comes directly from the Taliban-Al Qaeda combine, as proved by the incident at Manawan. The Pakistani mind should now be concentrated on the removal of this internal threat. Crucial international economic assistance to Pakistan is growing in these days of global crisis in the anticipation that a common regional approach to terrorism will be evolved that will include Pakistan. Hopefully Pakistan will steer skilfully through this process to preserve its self-interest. *
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
The problem is US and NATO presence fuels and supplements the Taliban and Al-Qaeda cells/bodies/units recruitment. The presence of the US enhances the life span of the Taliban, the US and NATO occupation and a puppet US-Karzai dog regime are the active ingredients in supporting the Taliban.
So this is counter-productive. Others have said you are fighting more than the Taliban you are fighting an ideology, you can arrest/kill people and armed people but cannot arrest/kill ideas, at least not necessarily through military means, and we see this in Afghanistan today.
I said this before and I'll say it again
America and NATO need to understand you can kill the Taliban but you cannot defeat the Taliban.
Learn from the Soviet experience, they Soviets fought bloody battles for 10 years, they tried to quell the Mujahideen, they tried to conquer Islamic ideas and beliefs with Communism, and they tried to manage an installed government, just like the Soviets installed Pres. Mohammad Najibullah of Dem.Comm. Afghanistan the US has installed Karzai, and no I don't buy the "free and fair" election argument...
10 years later they failed, only to find that there mere presence was intolerable in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is a different world.
As far as Pakistan's internal threat goes, it's linked to the US presence in Afghanistan and how their presence and sick actions fuels the militancy.
Pakistan should obviously first set up the appropriate security level in NWFP and tribal agencies, put an adequate amount of troops there, patrol, guard, monitor, and suppress activity thats threatening to security and peace (specifically attacks against Pakistan, not so much US troops
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Once the security is appropriate, we must develop the region economically, increase employment, enrollment in schools, build schools, hospitals/clinics, and markets and begin to develop the place.