Leaders of three of Pakistan’s largest militant organisations engaged in Kashmir - Lashkar-e-Toyeba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Harkatul Mujahideen - roam free to this day and are reportedly in touch with their cadres.
**Category 1**
The first includes the non-Pakistani militants - mostly from the Arab world - against whom Pakistan has followed a “zero tolerance” policy.
**Category 2**
The second category comprises a huge cadre of home grown militants once aided and abetted by successive Pakistani governments to fight in Kashmir.
**Category 3**
]The third category is that of Pakistani and Afghan militants currently battling the government of President Hamid Karzai and the US-led troops in Afghanistan.
The big question now is whether President Musharraf’s order for a fresh crackdown is based on a recognition of the limitations of a policy in which one militant is distinguished from the other on the basis of his ideological moorings.
Otherwise, one may find the same kind of tactics that followed General Musharraf’s 12 January, 2002 speech but which have failed to solve the problem.
You can play both sides for only so long. At the end of the day, Pakistan has to choose between using jihadis for state policy versus having a normal, demilitarized society. So far it has been the former.
yes pakistan should secure the border with IOK along the LoC though india has 700,000+ security force there
Yes pakistan should secure the border with afghanistan when we have a nuclear armed neighbour who only a few years ago had 500,000 troops on our border. while on the afgan side you have the world most modern NATO forces.
Yes, once they attack iran we will have to secure that border too, not to mention the 'border' with the UK to prevent brainwashed Brits blowing themselves up.
Hay while where at it, tell the isrealis to stop building the seperation wall...we`ll just send in the Pakistani Army to secure their border too