"Well atleast now the people who keep accusing Pakistan of harboring the Afghani Talibs should Shut up as this news can put a stop to all of the crap."
And the eight years of denials and dissemblance before this? What's that say about accusations of Indian intrigue eminating from Afghanistan. Intrigue, btw if true, that would endanger Afghans, NGOs, and forty nations worth of soldiers from ISAF. With all those eyes about whose lives are at stake by India messing with Pakistan from somebody else's yard, who would tolerate such?
Yet without proof, everybody here and nobody else anywhere else have lapped that up. It's not true. The afghan taliban and TTP have come from the same roots. Men like Nek Mohammad and Baitullah Mehsud FOUGHT the northern alliance in Afghanistan and have NEVER held any regard for the Indians.
You'd best consider the web of lies that have been spun for eight years about the afghan taliban not existing on your lands. Baradar's capture isn't the only example. Here are two more-
Held By The Taliban-David Rohde NYT Oct. 18, 2009
"OUR first Pakistani home was in Miram Shah, the capital of North Waziristan. Two large sleeping rooms looked out on a small courtyard. One even had a small washroom, separate from the toilet, for showering...
...All day, a parade of random Pakistani militants stopped by the house to stare at us. I felt like an animal in a zoo. Among them was a local Taliban commander who introduced himself as Badruddin. He was the brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, who led the Haqqani network, one of the most powerful Taliban factions in the region. Miram Shah was its stronghold."
Here's another-
Quetta Shura No Longer Poses A Threat: Ahmad Mukhtar-DAWN Dec. 11, 2009
After years of denial that the Quetta Shura didn't exist we awake one morning to read its been DESTROYED. Sure. Well at least it exists, correct?
Since this story I've been told at this board
1. Mukhtar was ill
2. Mukhtar was drunk
3. Mukhtar meant the TTP not the Quetta Shura (as though he doesn't know the difference in either nor where S. Waziristan versus Balochistan might be)
Now if a grand lie has been spun on this topic for eight years despite all that forty plus other nations in Afghanistan have insisted otherwise, what else might you have been lied about?
Something has changed for the better in Pakistan today. Very, very much so. I think I know what it is but I doubt those here or the Pakistani public are ready to read it.
Doesn't matter...for now.
Thanks.