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India-Pakistan
ISI using Haqqanis for 'proxy war': US
2011-09-22
WASHINGTON: The US has accused the ISI of using the Haqqani network to wage a 'proxy war', hardening its criticism of Islamabad's ties with Taliban-allied factions fighting NATO and Afghan troops in Afghanistan.

Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that in a discussion with Pakistan's army chief that lasted about four hours, he had pressed Pakistan to break its links with the group.

Washington blames the Haqqani network for last week's attack on the US embassy and other targets in Kabul. The Pakistan government denies that it still has ties to the Haqqanis.

"The Haqqanis are the product of the Soviet Union and Afghan war, and we were partners and they are sons of the soil," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters.
That doesn't exactly sound like a denial...
The Washington Post reported that US officials had delivered an ultimatum to Islamabad in recent days, warning that if it did not cut ties with the Haqqani network and help eliminate its leaders then "the United States will act unilaterally".
That means more drones shooting missiles at sons of the soil we followed back to their ISI-organized sanctuaries in Pakistan. Not to mention the other ones we've been watching with our spy satellites.
The US could step up drone attacks from Afghanistan in North Waziristan or launch long-range attacks on Haqqani hideouts as they did in their helicopter raid on bin Laden in a town just two hours up the road from Islamabad.

Launching a larger military operation would be extremely difficult in the mountainous terrain of North Waziristan and would risk hardening anti-American sentiment in Pakistan.
Not that you'd be able to tell...
A resolution to lingering Jammu and Kashmir dispute would unlock peace potential in South Asia in the long-term perspective, US military leader Admiral Mike Mullen noted.

"I've said a couple years ago, and I believe today, I think solving Kashmir unlocks the whole place, that's the path for long-term solutions," he said at think tank Carnegie Endowment for Interntional Peace. An analysis by Congressional Research Service, dicussing the importance of the issue to Pakistan-India relations, also found that "many US officials, as well as the Pakistani government, aver that regional peace is inextricably linked to a solution of the Kashmir dispute."
Posted by:Steve White

#2  We have been fighting a proxy war against Pakistan for years in Afganistan who hope just like the Soviets that we see a US financial collapse in the outcome.(Check comments from Hamid Gul and Hafiz Saeed on this!)

But who is funding the proxy war on the Pak side?US indirectly/China/Iran/Russia or Saudi come to mind.
Posted by: Glatle Glealing7009   2011-09-22 12:59  

#1  See also WORLD NEWS > PAKISTAN ISI URGED MILITANTS TO STRIKE US TARGETS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-09-22 01:42  

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