WASHINGTON: Pakistan is back under U.S. control after devising the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, with U.S. analysts predicting that “the already unstable reputation in the West is likely to fall” and its relations with Washington, “already on the descent, it will fall apart more.”
U.S. analysts entrust Pakistan with responsibility for the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, saying its ISI intelligence agency provided planning assistance, expert training, and sometimes field advice to the US. Taliban during the war that led to the capture of Kabul.
Tribal leaders in the AfPak region are quoted as alleging that in the past three months, as the Taliban crossed Afghanistan, the Pakistani army waved a wave of new fighters across the border from Pakistan’s shrines. .
“The Afghan Taliban would not be where they are without the help of Pakistanis,” Douglas London, a former CIA counterterrorism chief for South and Southwest Asia, told the New York Times. Thursday the subversive role and the role of Pakistan. in Afghanistan and duplicate dealings with Washington.
According to London, Pakistani army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa and ISI chief Hameed Faiz met with Afghan Taliban leader Khalil Haqqani on a “recurring” basis. When the U.S. pressured Bajwa to resign Khalil Haqqani and two other Haqqani leaders, he said, “Tell us where they are.” London said, adding: “My favorite date was when Bajwa said, ‘Come to my office and we’ll go by helicopter and we’ll pick them up.’
Pakistan’s aid, according to London, covered a range of services: safe havens for the Taliban on Pakistan’s border lands, medical services for treated wounded combatants and free reign for the haqqani to run lucrative real estate, smuggling and other businesses in Pakistan they kept their war battered. The ISI used to keep its agents out of the real conflict, fearing they might be captured in Afghanistan, handing over a firearm to the Americans, he added.
The report highlighted the fact that Pakistan’s duplicative role in Afghanistan is motivated by its animosity towards India. “The Pakistani military believes that Afghanistan provides strategic depth against India, which is its obsession. The United States encouraged India to support the US-backed Afghan government after 2001, fueling paranoia. of the army, “Bruce Riedel, a former South Asian adviser to Bush and Obama administrations, told the newspaper.
According to the report, during a visit to Washington this spring, Pakistani national security adviser Moeed Yusuf stressed the need to eliminate the Indian presence in Afghanistan. Washington said it was shocked by its vehemence over India’s role in Afghanistan.
However, US analysts warned that to the extent that Pakistanis and the ISI believe they have won in Afghanistan, they should watch what they want. “If the Afghan Taliban become leaders of a pariah state, Pakistan is likely to be tied to them,” Robert Grenier, a former head of the CIA station in Pakistan, told the newspaper.
The report said that during the 20-year war Americans tolerated Pakistan’s duplicitous game because they saw little choice, preferring to wage a chaotic war in Afghanistan over war with Pakistan with nuclear weapons. In addition, Pakistani ports and airfields provided the main points of entry and supply lines for necessary U.S. military equipment in Afghanistan.
This bottom feed, he suggested, may now end.
However, he warned that Pakistan, along with Russia and China, are helping to fill the space that Americans have left free. The embassies of the three nations have remained open since the Taliban seized Kabul.
U.S. analysts entrust Pakistan with responsibility for the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, saying its ISI intelligence agency provided planning assistance, expert training, and sometimes field advice to the US. Taliban during the war that led to the capture of Kabul.
Tribal leaders in the AfPak region are quoted as alleging that in the past three months, as the Taliban crossed Afghanistan, the Pakistani army waved a wave of new fighters across the border from Pakistan’s shrines. .
“The Afghan Taliban would not be where they are without the help of Pakistanis,” Douglas London, a former CIA counterterrorism chief for South and Southwest Asia, told the New York Times. Thursday the subversive role and the role of Pakistan. in Afghanistan and duplicate dealings with Washington.
According to London, Pakistani army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa and ISI chief Hameed Faiz met with Afghan Taliban leader Khalil Haqqani on a “recurring” basis. When the U.S. pressured Bajwa to resign Khalil Haqqani and two other Haqqani leaders, he said, “Tell us where they are.” London said, adding: “My favorite date was when Bajwa said, ‘Come to my office and we’ll go by helicopter and we’ll pick them up.’
Pakistan’s aid, according to London, covered a range of services: safe havens for the Taliban on Pakistan’s border lands, medical services for treated wounded combatants and free reign for the haqqani to run lucrative real estate, smuggling and other businesses in Pakistan they kept their war battered. The ISI used to keep its agents out of the real conflict, fearing they might be captured in Afghanistan, handing over a firearm to the Americans, he added.
The report highlighted the fact that Pakistan’s duplicative role in Afghanistan is motivated by its animosity towards India. “The Pakistani military believes that Afghanistan provides strategic depth against India, which is its obsession. The United States encouraged India to support the US-backed Afghan government after 2001, fueling paranoia. of the army, “Bruce Riedel, a former South Asian adviser to Bush and Obama administrations, told the newspaper.
According to the report, during a visit to Washington this spring, Pakistani national security adviser Moeed Yusuf stressed the need to eliminate the Indian presence in Afghanistan. Washington said it was shocked by its vehemence over India’s role in Afghanistan.
However, US analysts warned that to the extent that Pakistanis and the ISI believe they have won in Afghanistan, they should watch what they want. “If the Afghan Taliban become leaders of a pariah state, Pakistan is likely to be tied to them,” Robert Grenier, a former head of the CIA station in Pakistan, told the newspaper.
The report said that during the 20-year war Americans tolerated Pakistan’s duplicitous game because they saw little choice, preferring to wage a chaotic war in Afghanistan over war with Pakistan with nuclear weapons. In addition, Pakistani ports and airfields provided the main points of entry and supply lines for necessary U.S. military equipment in Afghanistan.
This bottom feed, he suggested, may now end.
However, he warned that Pakistan, along with Russia and China, are helping to fill the space that Americans have left free. The embassies of the three nations have remained open since the Taliban seized Kabul.