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U.S. Seeks Aid From Pakistan in Peace Effort
Just a month after accusing Pakistans spy agency of secretly supporting the Haqqani terrorist network, which has mounted attacks on Americans, the Obama administration is now relying on the same intelligence service to help organize and kick-start reconciliation talks aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan.The revamped approach, which Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Fight, Talk, Build during a high-level United States delegations visit to Kabul and Islamabad this month, combines continued American air and ground strikes against the Haqqani network and the Taliban with an insistence that Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence agency get them to the negotiating table. But some elements of the ISI see little advantage in forcing those negotiations, because they see the insurgents as perhaps their best bet for maintaining influence in Afghanistan as the United States reduces its presence there. Posted by: tipper 2011-10-31 |
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