Cooperation is key
With war weariness having become a dominant feeling in the US and Europe, Afghanistan faces an uncertain future. The Taliban control more of the country than at any time since the US invasion in 2001. What is more they are on the offensive. The situation worries on the one hand the US and its allies and on the other Pakistan.
President Obama, who wanted to end the longest US war in history during his tenure, has been forced to announce adjustments in his original troop plans; keeping 8,400 soldiers in the country when he steps down early next year. Meanwhile a high level Afghan delegation led by President Ghani is in Poland to attend the Nato summit in Warsaw. The Afghan government wants a comprehensive five-year financial and military assistance program to support its fight against terrorism.
The visit by the US bipartisan group of senators led by Senator John McCain was aimed at making an assessment of the operation in North Waziristan and of Pakistan’s efforts to contain terrorism. Another reason was to find how far Pakistan was willing to go against the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network.
Adding to what Sartaj Aziz had called sequencing the operation, Gen Raheel Sharif explained that as consolidation goes on and operational dividends are optimised for Pak-Afghan border region, Pakistan will not allow anyone to use its soil against Afghanistan. He also assured the Afghan government that Pakistan will undertake all efforts to protect the integrity and sovereignty of Afghanistan but expects the same level of commitment from the neighbouring country.
Cooperation between Pakistan and Afghanistan is the key to peace in the region. What stands in the way are mutual suspicions which will not disappear with mere promises. Most Afghans believe that Pakistan is using its proxies to continue the civil war to have a government of its choice foisted on the Afghans. Pakistan thinks the Afghan government is helping India implement its hegemonic agenda in the region. Unless Pakistan takes action against Afghan Taliban and Haqqanis and the Afghans are careful about Pakistan’s sensitivities the suspicions will persist.
Yak na shud – do shud. First, it was Karzai who betrayed Pakistan and now the more Americanized Ashraf Ghani. Pakistan has time and again repeated and assured that a stable Afghanistan is what we all wish not for Pakistan alone but for the region. But we have been snubbed time and again even if the PM has extended the repatriation of Afghan refugees. The
RAW is building-up and digging- in which the Afghan government does not want to recognize. Time to snub and ignore them.
Idiot neutral spews his ignorant misguided hate against those who are fighting Islamic militants responsible for killing many more Muslims than any western troops?…as long as uneducated fools like him keep promoting the TTP and Taliban agenda…Pakistan will be perceived as not doing enough to root out the evil that is Islamic Militancy…which is source of hate dragging the entire region into unending war…
Stupid, your masters, the USA and biggest terrorists on the planet, who believe in killing by millions, were the first to promote the freedom fighters Taliban, then Mujahidin, and were invited them to White house. You have narrow a dirty mind and absolute polluted brain supporting those who attack and occupy Muslim countries like they did in Iraq and Afghanistan. Terrorism in Muslim countries is a valued export by your Christian Masters who first make them to fight and then keep supplying arms and ammunition to both sides. This is what they did between Iraq and Iran for long seven years. Feel ashamed you stupid.
The world recognizes the problem in Afghanistan is created by Pakistan by sponsoring Taliban terrorists. The duplicity and deceit of Pakistan is world known now. As long as Pakistan continues to support the Haqani network and other terrorists, the violence and terrorism in both Afghanistan and Pakistan will not end.
Hi Andrew, You are right a bit but in reality US is the one which created Talibans and Also created ISIS. Now US wants to have its influence in South Asia Region and for that purpose it wants to have a their puppet government but most of afghans want Talibans ( I can't give all explanation about it here ). US has realized that it can not win war against Talibans but Pakistan can do that as it did against TTP. I think its enough. I recommend you to study more about this region, its people, their objectives, ideologies and goals.
You are wrong Hamza…it is just lies that USA created Taliban or ISIS…just lies…Both Taliban and Isis are the result of radical Islamic militants using terrorism to try and steal power from the elected governments. It is only brainwashed, madrassah uneducated fools like neutral who continue to repeat these lies because they support the TTP and Taliban who have killed so many Pakistanis and afghans…
Oh! I guess USA only supports moderate terrorists like they do in Syria and some how they all become hard core terrorists. How come TTP operates from Afghanistan while on US watch? How come there is no drone strike on Mullah Fazlullah? Because US is too busy bombing hospitals and wedding assemblies in Afghanistan.
The world may falsely recognise whatever they wish but that will not change any thing in Afghanistan as is now crystal clear to the extra regional forces. What really matters is how Pakistanis think of the situation inside Afghanistan which transtales into how Pakistan deals with all other players on Afghan chess board.
Pakistan has already won against TTP which in reality is the proxy of combined extra regional forces. The puppet Afghan government is helpless and the best it can do is keep whinning. Pakistan should take lessons from Turkey and set up a buffer zone inside Afghanistan to protect its border areas and keep foreign sponsor terrorist proxies like TTP and ISIS from creating havoc inside Pakistan. In the mean time the ground reality is that more then 80% of Afghanistan is controlled by TTA and therefore Pakistan must accord recognation to them in all areas they control. TTA is not against Pakistan and have never tried to hurt Pakistan. Once that is done the central governmwnt in Kabul will come to terms as there can never be a minority government in Afghanistan which is hostile to Pakistan’s core interests in our own back yard.
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