America is inducting another 20,000 troops in Afghanistan. Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Yousaf Raza Gilani has very rightly and timely expressed the reservations against this move. This induction is likely to intensify the hunt of Al Qaeda and Taliban by the US and NATO troops in Afghanistan pushing the terrorists in larger numbers to Pakistan increasing its existing problems of security and insurgency.
To seriously deal with Al Qaeda and Taliban, US troops along with NATO troops, the most advanced and well equipped and well trained armies of the world, should stop cross border movement of Al Qaeda and Taliban, this time from Afghanistan to Pakistan as against earlier movement in the opposition direction, and undertake operations to eliminate them. Similarly, Pakistan army should make every endeavour to block the cross border movement of Taliban. The earlier proposals given by Pakistan to fence and mine the selected border areas along Afghanistan should be implemented. It's not understood as to why Americans oppose the idea of sealing the border. Perhaps, they don't want to fight Al Qaeda and Taliban and in stead want them to cross over to Pakistan leaving the dirty job of fighting to Pakistan army.
Labels: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, American Troops, NATO Troops, Taliban
posted @ 3:06 PM,
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North America, the entire western world, Russia, India, Afghanistan, Iran and sundry have vowed to fight the menace of Al Qaeda and Taliban as they are the chief source of terrorism the world over. However, it is common knowledge and has become all the more evident during Swat operation that the terrorists are well equipped with sophisticated weaponry manufactured by the countries neighbouring Pakistan and Afghanistan. Some of the weapons captured during Swat operation also have the manufacturing origin of America. Either this weaponry is being supplied by these countries contrary to their stated political stand of supporting anti terrorist activities or the terrorists are getting plenty of money to buy the weapons on their own, or may be, it is the combination of both. It appears that a big game of politics is going on in which all the aforementioned countries are directly or indirectly supporting terrorism in stead of opposing it for their respective vested interests. Having become a beggar state internationally, we can't point our fingers at anyone, and even if we do, we can't do anything beyond that. We need to put our own house in order in stead of expecting others to do things for us recognizing fully well that others would do what suits them and not us. We need to multiply our intelligence efforts to understand the plot, formulate a comprehensive policy and assemble our indigenous resources to deal with it,
Labels: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, America, India, Iran, Russia, Taliban, Terrorism
posted @ 11:29 AM,
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