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The Swat peace agreement should raise alarm bells in Washington about the Pakistani state's inability to stop spreading Talibanisation in the province, said Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow for South Asia at the prestigious Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center.
Observing the Obama administration has reacted cautiously to this news, Curtis said this sends a signal of weakness in the region precisely at the time the US needs to demonstrate resolve against the forces of extremism and terrorism.
"Washington's prevarication on the take-over of the Swat Valley by pro-Taliban forces undermines US policy in the region and raises the critical question of why the US would send troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, while standing by as Islamist extremists gain ground in neighbouring Pakistan," Curtis said.
In a commentary released yesterday, Curtis said the the then Pakistan President Parvez Musharraf had entered in to peace agreements with the Taliban in the tribal areas in 2006.
This had resulted in a drastic increase in militant cross-border activity into Afghanistan and the strengthening of the Taliban's influence in the region.
An earlier peace deal in the Swat Valley also fell apart and resulted in the strengthening of the TNSM. "There is little reason to believe this Swat agreement will have a different outcome," she said.
"Unless and until the Pakistani civilian and military leadership work together to develop a bold strategy to counter the spreading militancy, it could be a matter of time before the provincial capital, Peshawar, falls under the sway of Taliban forces, essentially bifurcating the nuclear-armed state," Curtis said.
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Pak is a proclaimed Islamic state. It should be talibanised to be truly Islamic. And, in the process, the Cricket Board will have to be renamed as the "Gilli Dandu Board" !!!
The whole world has to be united to wipe out Taliban from the earth. We have to save our world and even we have to save our muslim brothers and sisters from the clutches of Taliban.
The world must understand that this agreement between pak govt and the militants is both a compulsion by design from the pak army / ISI. The pak army/ ISI do not want to fight against them firstly because they fear loosing and secondly pak army / ISI have sinster design to join them and get victories against the countries like India and black mail for money the USA/western countries. The militants, pak army and the ISI wants to be the underworld of the entire world and control underworld activities and demand ransom from other countries. After sometime all underworld elements from the world would take shelter in pak and their govt/army/ISI will charge them the protection money. The international communities should take this as a wake up call and sort out this pak (international institute of trg and shelter for criminals and terrorists ) at the earliest else they will soon blackmail the world as it had been blackmailing india.
Unstable and Talibanised Afghanistan has had its impact on Pakistan and the world at large. So even the imagination of what would be the real impact an unstable and talibanised Pakistan on our country is scary. The need of the hour is that we take whatever needed on our own to stem the spread of these uncivilised cowards who are out establish their bloated virsion of sharia all over the world. It will be really foolish to fully trust any western power in this fight, because the threat that we face today is partly their creation. It should not happen that we join the west in this fiight and after some time see ourselves left alone to fight.
These activities shows the real faces of Pakistan internal problem. It is the sheer responsibility of Pakistan to deal with internal insecurities because of its repercussion on global platform. If Pakistan wont take any serious initiatives to end this brouhaha then world will see the defeated face of Pakistan. And it will provide another chance to global community to question Pakistan.
In a years time you can see that there wont be a country called Pakistan in the world map every one is going to see that?