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Pakistan's policy of using Afghan Taliban as 'proxies' has 'blown up on its face': Editorial | |
Pakistan, a country which over decades has managed to
entrench itself in a full-blown war, with no resolution in sight, amidst human
and financial losses as a normal occurrence, its policy of using the Afghan Taliban
as proxies seems to have blown up on its face because of the nexus between the
Afghan and Pakistani Taliban. To be embroiled in a conflict in a neighbouring
country for which it does not have a justifiable provocation or justification,
Pakistan is being compared to a crying 'wolf' by war analysts and critics. According
to the Daily Times, the latest official condemnation of approximately 60 Afghan
soldiers' alleged intrusion into Pakistani territory has unleashed a new round
of accusations and counter-accusations between the two neighbours. The death of
two Pakistani tribesmen is an added tragedy in an already bloodstained scenario,
while cross-border attacks, which are on the rise of late, are expected to make
an already bad situation, even worse. The constant blame game between Pakistan
and Afghanistan over 'alleged' harbouring of 'good' and 'bad' Taliban on both
sides of the 2,400 kilometres porous border has deteriorated the already tepid
relationship between the two countries. As the preparations of the US/NATO to
pull out their troops by 2014 start to roll, the closed NATO supply routes through
Pakistan and the latter's support to the Afghan Taliban in its tribal areas is
seen to contribute to the growing hostility toward Pakistan. The US/NATO have
also been putting pressure on Pakistan since long to root out the Afghan Taliban's
safe havens Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Pakistani soil, but somehow the
accusation of Pakistan's culpability does not seem off the mark as the TTP has
found safe havens in the eastern borders of Afghanistan with the Haqqani network,
which controls these provinces. The mayhem wreaked by the TTP has its stains all
over Pakistan , causing innumerable deaths in the country, and before it further
catapults into more bloodshed, it is time to rethink Pakistan 's enfeebled, faulty,
misplaced proxy war strategy in Afghanistan. |
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