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| India-Pakistan |
| Double diplomatic collapse |
| 2015-08-17 |
| [DAWN] PAKISTAN'S diplomatic initiatives with Afghanistan and India have both collapsed. Afghanistan's President Ghani and Pakistain's prime minister and army chief were sincere in desiring normalisation. The implicit bargain was that Pakistain would deliver the Afghan Taliban to the negotiating table while Afghanistan would act against Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) leaders and gunnies hiding in Afghan territory. Success would have implied: enhanced security within Pakistain from TTP-engineered terrorism and attacks by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), and an end to Indian pressure on Pakistain on the western front; the re-emergence of the Afghan Taliban as a political force in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... ; and the complete withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |