They do not have additional troops. Heck their generals are having hard time getting a piddly sum of 40,000 soldiers.
They are badly in need of ground troops and only Pakistan can provide not just 40,000 but 100,000.
By providing such “support”, Pakistan can score two birds with the same stone.
- We can bring peace in our own FARTA and in Afghanistan
- Pak army can get $30 billion a year in military aid for at least 10 years if not more (instead of this piddly some of $1.5 billion and that too with so many strings)
Yes they were, until Pak army went in Swat and kicked out Taliban in less than 3 months.
Sure we’ll have suicide bombings until the cancer in Afghanistan is not cured. But Taliban’s sharia courts will not be setup in Swat as long our army is there.