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Has
General Musharraf Laid Foundation of Talibanistan Within
Pakistan
Many people wonder what happened in
Waziristan. General Musharraf who has a steel pipe in his neck
and who openly threatened Nawab Akbar Bugti to kill him and
eventually implemented his threat and killed Bugti in
Balochistan why surrendered in Waziristan? Here is it what
really happened in Waziristan.
In order to understand the steel necked
general Musharraf’s humiliating surrender in Waziristan, we have
to clearly understand Pakistan’s military establishment’s
problem with its decision making process.
The problem with Pakistan’s military
establishment is it does not take decisions in the interest of
Pakistan. It back and forth shifts its positions in order to
keep itself aligned with international establishment, it takes
decisions according to the interests of international
establishment.
When international establishment needs
Mujahideen to fight Soviet occupation in Afghanistan, Pakistani
generals happily go along with and create a large regiment of
Mujahideen based on local and Middle Eastern Jihadis. When
international establishment needs Taliban to protect its
interests in former Soviet states, Pakistani generals happily
create, train and implant Taliban in Afghanistan.
When interests of international establishment
change, and it requests Pakistani generals to shoot Mujahideen
and Taliban, Pakistani generals happily start shooting
Mujahideen and Taliban in and around Pakistan.
Taliban are becoming a serious problem for
international establishment in Afghanistan. Since the arrival of
American and Nato forces, Taliban have quadrupled their
guerrilla war activities in Afghanistan. They are not only
getting stronger by the day, they are learning new methods such
as suicidal attacks from Iraqi insurgents and applying them in
Afghanistan against Nato and American forces.
Americans tried to negotiate power sharing
with Taliban in Afghanistan. Hamad Karzai offered Taliban to
disarm and join his government, but Taliban showed no interest
in sharing power with Hamad Karzai in Kabul. They are looking at
a larger picture and hoping to return to Kabul and re-establish
their government. With unlimited supply of free fighting force,
they don’t need a regular guerrilla force to continue their
armed struggle against Nato, and American forces. Ordinary
Afghans switch back and forth their role as guerilla and as
civilian after carrying out attacks against international
forces.
While Taliban in Afghanistan are building
pressure on international forces, their cousins gave bloody nose
to Pakistan Armed forces in Southern and Northern Waziristan.
They mounted so much pressure on international forces and gave
bloody nose to Pakistan Armed forces in Waziristan to the
extent, the international establishment and Pakistan Armed
forces decided to give territory to Taliban.
Again, general Musharraf and Pakistan’s
military leadership offered their services and provided Southern
and Northern Waziristan to Taliban to let them establish their
writ in those areas.
General Musharraf has laid the foundation of
Talibistan within Pakistan by giving territorial control to
Taliban in Waziristan.
Pakistan army with the history of
surrendering Pakistani territory, one wonders what else general
Musharraf is going to surrender and to whom just in order to
stay in power. Of course, the decision is not in general
Musharraf’s hands it is international establishment which will
decide which part of Pakistan is surrendered next and to whom?
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