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Ex-Pakistan Interior Minister Rejects Joint Border Patrols
Started by washingtonindependent · 8 months ago
I spent the morning at a lecture delivered by Aftab Sherpao, a former Pakistani interior minister whom Islamic extremists have recently been trying to murder.
Sherpao came to the U.S. Institute of Peace to discuss the increasing instability emanating from the… ... Continue reading »
Sherpao came to the U.S. Institute of Peace to discuss the increasing instability emanating from the… ... Continue reading »
8 months ago
Having had experience on both sides of the Afg-Pak border, I have to agree with Sherpao. The US and Afghanistan are trying to win the war on the cheap. Pakistan has more troops in FATA alone than US, NATO, ISAF, and Karzai have in Afghanistan!
My belief is that the US and Afghanistan don't have the resources or resolve to fight an internal Afghan insurgency and are working to push the fight into Pakistan. Let the Paks take care of it, they seem to be saying!
And then you ask Pakistan to "do more?"