After the failure in bringing the taleban on the negotiating table the Americans have secretly started to release taleban in search of peace in Afghanistan. For Pakistan it’s always do more and drone strikes but on the other side they are undertaking desperate steps to show to their people that they have won in Afghanistan. What impact will this ‘strategic release’ have for the region and especially Pakistan?
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Who knows what the full American game in the region is but according to the article the Americans did a deal with helmatyars hizb e Islami and they conducted joint operations against taleban. They have left most of the eastern provinces under the influence of taleban (mostly Pakistani taleban) and then they have the gall to put all the blame on Pakistan for their failures in Afghanistan. This is becoming another Vietnam which I have been suspecting all along and Pakistan is playing the role of Cambodia. At the back of all this drama are American long term designs for the region which precede 911, everything is getting clearer as the time progresses.
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Another interesting thing is that hekmatyars strongholds are mainly in the eastern provinces of Afghanistan which have been virtually handed over to taleban.
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Attacking Pakistan like they did to Cambodia is impossible:), It is fully nuclear armed state and fall of pakistan means chaos in much larger scale that they cannot control, infact it is impossible to contain and control a state of 180 million people:)
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Yes they are already attacking in the form of drones as well as their proxies (which could be ttp in this case). They have done similar things in Iraq. In the garb of all these security issues they have many spies roaming around the country and building one of the biggest embassies in the world in Islamabad.
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The also have a big embassy in Baghdad, so they have planned to stay in Iraq for long time:hmmm:, same might be true for pakistan, but operation like Cambodia is impossible as of now:), Raymond Davis and subsequent catching of Osama means that they have developed their own parallel and effective network, they are also trying to encircle china as much as they can, and pakistan is one of the forts, and if they wish to encircle chinks they have to keep Pakistan in order by involving her focus in many proxy wars. US is not going to leave Afghanistan and if they leave the region like Russian did, then gun yielding talibans will slowly ruin Pakistan society and may also bring more trouble in Indian Kashmir:)
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After the failure in bringing the taleban on the negotiating table the Americans have secretly started to release taleban in search of peace in Afghanistan.
A propaganda failure of colossal proportions on our part. Our FO guys should read Dr Joseph Goebbels and mouthpieces of our politicians, like Faisal Raza Abidi, Mushahid Hussein and Marvi Memon should be put to some good tasks for a change.
By the way, we deserve an Oscar in the category of patience — something that we never run out of despite being flocked day in and day out. Information like this should be made a huge diplomatic issue, but then this is Pakistan.
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Wish we didnt have a puppet govt.I dont think our govt will even bother taking this issue seriously.eastern afghanistan is the same area from where militants used to crossover and attack our checkposts....rocket and mortar shells were fired.on our FC, how many times Afghan govt and Nato were told to launch an operation in eastern Afghanistan against those militants...but why would they and here they are releasing them to go out and take more innocent lives.
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Ex CIA officer on CIA’s secret wars in the third world which he believes has killed 6 million people so far.
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US shifting blame on Pakistan, says Peshawar Corps Commander | DAWN.COM
**PESHAWAR: American efforts to talk peace with insurgents in Afghanistan mean Washington can no longer expect Pakistan to attack all the militant factions on its side of the border, some of whom Islamabad is also reaching out to, the commander of Pakistan’s forces along the frontier told The Associated Press.
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**In a sign of the bad blood between Washington and Islamabad, Peshawar Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Khalid Rabbani also accused the US of seeking to make Pakistan a scapegoat for its failure to beat the insurgency in Afghanistan.
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US and Nato officials allege Pakistan tolerates, if not supports, Afghan factions purportedly operating on its soil which they say is hobbling efforts to end the resistance to the foreign military presence in Afghanistan. The US wants Pakistan to launch an offensive or otherwise disrupt militant groups allegedly operating in North Waziristan.
**”Why do they raise their fingers toward Pakistan? It is shifting the blame to others,” Rabbani said in his offices in a highly secure section of Peshawar. ”Is Afghanistan free of Taliban? It has hundreds of thousands of them.”
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Rabbani was speaking a day after militants in North Waziristan beheaded two Pakistani soldiers.
The killings highlighted the dilemma facing the military in dealing with an area believed to be in use of both the country’s fiercest enemies, the Pakistani Taliban and al Qaeda, and Afghan and Pakistani militants who are battling US-led forces in Afghanistan.
One powerful faction in North Waziristan is led by a commander called Hafiz Gul Bahadur, who is believed to have signed a nonaggression pact with the government but still funnels fighters into Afghanistan. Rabbani defended the government’s dealings with Bahadur, saying ”at the moment he seems to be trying to keep himself out of the trouble.”
Washington has urged Pakistan to attack all the militants along the border.
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Rabbani said US and Nato were in contact with insurgents in Afghanistan to try and ”co-opt them into the peace process.”
**”Similar things are true on this side of the border as well,” he said. ”Is it forbidden for us to do the same?”
The Pakistani army has launched anti-militant operations in six of the seven tribal regions along the Afghan border since 2004, retaking parts of the mountainous area and losing hundreds of soldiers in bloody fighting. But just as US-led forces have experienced across the border, the force has had trouble holding retaken territory and attacks continue to roil the region.
Privately, some US officials agree with Pakistan’s stated reason that its lacks the soldiers to move into North Waziristan and defeat the some 8,000 militants there. But others in Congress and the army accuse the force of seeking to keep the insurgents as proxies to influence events in Afghanistan, especially the so-called Haqqani network, whose leadership is said to be based in North Waziristan.
Repeating assurances by other top army officers, Rabbani said several times that the army would launch operations in North Waziristan. But he didn’t say when this would happen, nor whether it would target all factions there.
”Something has to be done, and it’s in the offing,” said Rabbani, who commands over 150,000 soldiers and paramilitary forces in the rugged northwest. ”North Waziristan is the only region we haven’t cleared. It should be done as early as possible.”
US officials have been hoping to see the army move into North Waziristan since 2010, but now believe it is unlikely before 2014, when Washington is committed to bringing most of its soldiers home.
The unilateral American raid that killed Osama bin Laden last year badly hurt the relationship between the two countries. US airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers along the Afghan border in November effectively ended cooperation between the two forces. Islamabad ordered the closure of US and Nato supply lines.
Washington wants to rebuild ties with the country, but has had little success so far.