It’s been a busy weekend in terms of the Af-Pak crisis, and we’ve been working to bring you news and opinion from the Pakistanis and our NATO allies.
In one article, an editorial from Pakistan headlined, Karzai’s ‘Odes to Pakistan’ Come Too Late to Stop India, the reasons Pakistan feels so much angst toward Afghan President Hamid Karzai are laid out in detail. So what is it that has gotten Pakistanis so piqued? According to The Frontier Post, a newspaper published right near the restive Afghan border, Karzai has betrayed Pakistan’s decades-long help to his country by siding with the non-Pashtun factions of the Northern Alliance, which favor India and back separatism in Pakistani Baluchistan. And in the meantime, the newspaper writes, India has left both Pakistan and Afghanistan behind, occupying ‘the seat of full American partner in the region.’
The Frontier Post editorial says in part:
“Karzai’s recent outpourings are pleasing to Pakistani ears, but his odes to Pakistan will be of no avail now, as Pakistan is itself becoming a victim of Obama’s Af-Pak strategy. In this scheme, both Pakistan and Afghanistan figure only as foot soldiers, with India occupying the seat of full American partner in the region.”
Then there was this story from The Times of India, headlined Indian Leader Reportedly Tells Obama, Pakistan is Lost … N-Sites Already in the Hands’ of Radicals – the headline speaks for itself.
Then we posted this article By Jean-Claude Kiefer of France’s Les Dernieres Nouvelles d’Alsace headlined An Alarming Certainty: The Taliban are ‘Masters of the Terrain’, which reflects the growing alarm of our NATO allies about how things have been going.
Kiefer writes in part:
“”Terrorists advance on sites where atomic bombs are stored, the regular army struggles to contain the rebels in an area crammed with a million refugees fleeing the fighting. Is this a scene from a disaster film? No, Since April this has been the sad reality in northwest Pakistan … The daily horrors confirm an alarming certainty: the Taliban are masters of the terrain.”
EDITORIAL
May 15, 2009
Pakistan – The Frontier Post – Home Page (English)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s recent outpourings please Pakistani ears, but his melody comes too late in the day and after much water has flowed under the bridge. Had he indeed been sincerely friendly toward Pakistan, our joint concerted endeavors might have succeeded in pacifying war-torn Afghanistan and curbing the monstrous extremism that blights both countries so horrifically. His Pashtun ethnicity would have stood him in good stead in bringing peace to Afghanistan’s restive south and east, the community strongholds from which the Taliban draw their main support and are now insurmountably entrenched.
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