So the gateway becomes larger. 5 years later and this is what we have to show. Pakistan’s most known export to the world is terror it only makes sense to allow terror factories to operate freely, welcome to Pakistan.
~~~~~~~~~ Army officers and Taliban militants hugged and congratulated each other after inking the deal.
ISLAMABAD: Having failed to counter the insurgent Talibans in the Waziristan tribal region on the Pak Afghan border, the Pakistan Army Tuesday entered into yet another peace agreement with the pro-Taliban militants, primarily “to ensure a permanent peace in the area and to put an end to the continuing unrest in the Waziristan region.”
The agreement was signed after a meeting between a group of the local Taliban leaders and a jirga formed by the Pakistani military authorities to mediate on their behalf. According to the official sources, senior army officers and Taliban militants hugged and congratulated each other after inking the agreement at a school in Miran Shah.
The breakthrough was achieved after the military accepted most of the militants’ demands — the release of all their men, return of their weapons and vehicles seized during various army operations, dismantling of the army check posts in the area, restoration of all perks and privileges of the tribal people and monetary compensation for all those residents of the area who were either killed and whose property was damaged during military operations.
The amount demanded by the militants as compensation is not known but a government official said the figure was enormous. The military authorities have further agreed to the withdrawal of the security forces from the checkpoints to its fortes in North Waziristan; releasing the arrested Taliban militants and returning the weapons seized during military operations.
In exchange for accepting their demands, the Taliban militants have accepted the military’s demand to immediately cease terrorist attacks on the civil and military installations in the area. The militants have further given an assurance to the army that they would neither use the Pak-Afghan border to launch cross border attacks into the Afghan territory nor allow anyone else to do so.
Moreover, in a major concession, the military has allowed all foreign militants in Waziristan, including the Most Wanted ones, either to leave the area or to keep living there after furnishing tribal guarantees of good conduct.
Despite the deployment of over 80,000 Pakistani troops along the Afghan border in the tribal areas to capture the fugitive Taliban and Al Qaeda elements, the situation is far from stable in a region that is crucial to three world capitals — Islamabad, Washington and Kabul. Waziristan, often in the news due to frequent clashes between Pakistani security forces and the Taliban militants, is now more-or-less controlled by the local Taliban, which has established a foothold in both North and South Waziristan and has opened recruiting offices these areas to hire new fighters.
The peace agreement has been signed at a time when the Waziristan tribal areas bordering Afghanistan’s volatile southern and southwestern provinces are once again the focus of the war on terror and are likely to soon become as significant to the US as Afghanistan itself. The Americans are already pointing directly at the North and the South Waziristans as the primary conduit for the suicide bombers who are playing havoc with the US and NATO-led war machine in Afghanistan, and a safe haven for enemy combatants.
5 years later and what have you got to show for your efforts, the superpower of the world.
Osama still at large. (Capturing him was the biggest aim of invading Afghanistan.)
Taliban operating quite freely in parts of Afghanistan
A president whose writ only runs in the capital
*]Worlds largest opium production right under the noses of the great super power.
Great achievement by the American forces in Afghanistan. We must salute them.
Just another example of the COMPLETE AND UTTER FAILURE of this administration and another reason to vote these neocon idiots out of office.
What ever happened to "you are either with us or against us"? If true this obviously shows that Pakistan is not "with" US policy and have no control over their own country - similar to Afghanistan when that was the training base for terrorists. This is where the war on terror should have been fought for the past 5 years instead of getting hung up in the quagmire that is Iraq.
The people who attacked the US and continue to export terror have moved from Afghanistan to the badlands of Pakistan and we are playing peace keeper for the shia-sunni blood bath in Iraq. Makes no sense whatsoever.
Incorrect way of replying to a post :nono3:
Osama is alleged to be in Pakistan, no one has been able to confirm it.
Taliban are operating more freely in Afghanistan than parts of Pakistan, in fact the threat of Taliban taking over Afghanistan is back on again.
Much of opium is used in Iran? sure. I wonder if US is working for Iran then
Pakistan didn't go all guns blazing declaring to the world that we are not going to rest till we capture Osama. Funny how he escaped all the satellites, or was it intentional?
No one has been able to confirm it because he is being protected by the tribal leaders and evidently the government of Pakistan.
And evidently by the US govt. as well. Why? Because if he is caught or confirmed killed people will want the war on terror to end and that is not what the neo cons want, they still want to carry this war on islam (oops i must be Politically Correct and say war on terror) to continue.
You want us to believe that all the satellites which were monitoring Afghanistan somehow failed to monitor the movements of Osama. Isn't it funny that these same satellites picked up the Taliban leader leaving his hideout on a bike and than suddenly lost his track while it never picked up Osama. Yeah tell me another one.
I want to know WHICH AUTHORITY ON EARTH can allow the cultivation of such HUGE amounts of opium, the biggest crop ever for Afghanistan, and possibly the world. Why don't they just bomb those fields up? Why doesn't the Afghan government get more touchy about this subject? Is Karzai himself involved? Isn't bombing those opium fields in Afghanistan that the best altenative given the exponential rate at which narcotics exports from that country are growing.
I wouldn't doubt it. But what reports/evidence are you basing that on?
I do doubt that this is a war on Islam. I think that war is being conducted by the extremists within Islam that is trying radicalize the religion and use it as some kind of God-sanctioned war on the rest of the world.
now if only the forces in afghanista had done their job properly and stopped all these taleban from escaping afghanistan and getting into Pakistan, same for the foriegn fighters in Afghanistan. they were allowed to escape, and not just crushed there, and now it becomes Pakistan's problem.
not everyone who has a beard is “Taliban”.. but hey whatever the DNA India munshi’s write is fact now..
Pakistan has to watch out for it’s countrymen and neighbors. If your neighbors agree to live peacefully and not destruct private and public property then they hsave the right to live freely like they choose to. IF someone doesn’t like the way they live.. they are free to try and stop them.. have more GI’s left to spare?
Yeah, that’s what the government of Afghanistan thought when they were harboring terrorists. Mighty big talk from a country that has lost every war its been involved in.
sure. I wonder if US is working for Iran then 