Pakistani Taleban: Run by foreign agencies

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Re: Pakistani Taleban: Run by foreign agencies

@Ghost14

Well yes, authenticity is important because what you’re suggesting goes against what we know about the history of the US and the ISI. We know that both supported the Taliban at one point, and that the US has turned on the Taliban. To suggest that America is spending money funding the Taliban, and spending billions more to fight them, not to mention receiving all the bad publicity that drone strikes elicit, seems contradictory.

One of the most frequent complains Pakistanis have about their government is that they’re “American lap dogs”. Why would America want to destabilize a Pakistan when its government does whatever the US wants? Or rather, when most of its government does what the US wants…

This. If there is concrete evidence provided, not just opinion pieces in Pakistan pseudo-blogs, I am willing to believe that someone else is funding the Taliban. It’s far more likely that the TTP is receiving funding from Afghanistan, as the Taliban there thrive off the drug trade and extortion. They’re pretty much the Afghan mafia.

If you want to go by history then the US is only inrterested in winning and getting its way. After using Pakistan in 80’s, it had no use for it and imposed sanctions against Pakistan. After 9/11 US threatened to bomb Pakistan into the stone age if it did not help it.

The US is only fighting the Taleban in Afghanistan wheras it is sponsoring the Taleban in Pakistan which is just a militia using the Taleban name to confuse people. These are two different groups. One is fighting to liberate its country and the other is trying to undermine the Pakistani state. The Taleban in Afghanistan have been friendly towards Pakistan and even offered to help protect Pakistan against aggression by India when India mounted it troops near the Pakistan border for several months.

The US wants to win the war in Afghanistan and has created a militia organisation that is trying to recruit people to fight against Pakistan, it is trying to create a new front to relieve the pressure on it in Afghanistan.

The US has a history of sponsoring militas to achieve its objectives. It imposed a puppet government in Pakistan which has allowed the US to attack Pakistan with impunity through drone strikes and through its proxy TTP. TTP’s activities involve attacking Naval base in Karachi, Air Force base in Kamra, Army headquarters, Naval headquarters, blowing up girls schools, killing shias and attacking army checkposts.

The US has agents on the ground in Waziristan that plant devices close to places to be bombed by the drones. Thousands have been killed by the drones yet TTP is based in the same area is able to carry out its activities with impunity.