Refreshing honesty from the Pakistani military.
Demands by the United States for Pakistan to crack down on the strongest Taliban warrior in Afghanistan, Siraj Haqqani, whose fighters pose the biggest threat to American forces, have been rebuffed by the Pakistani military, according to Pakistani military officials and diplomats.
The Obama administration wants Pakistan to turn on Mr. Haqqani, a longtime asset of Pakistan’s spy agency who uses the tribal area of North Waziristan as his sanctuary. But, the officials said, Pakistan views the entreaties as contrary to its interests in Afghanistan beyond the timetable of President Obama’s surge, which envisions drawing down American forces beginning in mid-2011.
….The demands have been accompanied by strong suggestions that if the Pakistanis cannot take care of the problem, including dismantling the Taliban leadership based in Quetta, Pakistan, then the Americans will by resorting to broader and more frequent drone strikes in Pakistan.
But the Pakistanis have greeted the refrain with official public silence and private anger, illustrating the widening gulf between the allies over the Afghan war.
Because the Pakistani military would like to have their own proxy, easily controllable government in Afghanistan – but for some reason we don’t call Pakistani meddling in Afghanistan foreign interference.
abunoor 7:24 pm on December 14, 2009 Permalink |
Who is “we”? I hear tons of people calling it “foreign interference.”
abunoor 7:25 pm on December 14, 2009 Permalink |
Do you mean U.S. gov? American Muslims?
abunoor 7:31 pm on December 14, 2009 Permalink |
By the way John, the Haqqani network and the ISI publicly deny their relationship and it hasn’t been proven in a court of law. Shouldn’t you then not be stating it to be true, just because it is known “on the street”?
I’m just kidding, I’ve lost it…I gotta have some internet break time, now!