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WASHINGTON, May 22: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) is going to increase its engagement with Pakistan, seeking a more in-depth relationship with a country plagued by terrorism and instability, says the US military chief.
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a congressional hearing on Thursday that other similar international organisations will also seek to broaden their relations with Pakistan.
“Where I see Nato going is increasingly towards a broader and more in-depth relationship with Pakistan, because of the common interests,” he told a Senate panel.
Admiral Mullen recalled that the chairman of the military committee in Nato had invited Pakistan’s army chief General Ashfaq Kayani to the committee last year.
“He came and laid out a very clear view” on his country’s strategy to combat terrorists before military chiefs from 28 countries.
“There are ongoing discussions in various venues outside the military (as well) to connect more internationally through these organisations, alliances, whatever they might be,” the admiral added.
“And I see that as growing, and certainly the capacity in some of these other areas that other organisations have and represent are critical, and the more of that we can do, and the sooner we can do it, I think the better off we’ll be.”
Earlier, Senator Johnny Isakson, a Republican, asked Admiral Mullen to comment on the news that Pakistan might want to join the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
The OSCE is Europe’s primary instrument for early warning, conflict prevention, and crisis management. The OSCE is the world’s largest regional security organisation whose 56 participating states span the geographical area from Vancouver to Vladivostok.
Senator Isakson noted that if Pakistan joined the OSCE, the organisation could bring in resources to help build the country’s military and civilian capacity for dealing with the Taliban-led insurgency.
“I mention that because I think your involvement here in trying to bring in more international support for nation building is a positive step in the US objectives in both Afghanistan and Pakistan,” the senator observed and asked if the US had a workable strategy for involving the OSCE in Pakistan.
The admiral said that while he was not trying to compare the OSCE with Nato, he believed Nato was trying to broaden its relationship with Pakistan.
Already, supplies for Nato troops in Afghanistan go thorough Pakistan but Admiral Mullen indicated that a new relationship would enable Nato to play a more direct role inside Pakistan.

I hope all Pakistanis have by now heard the latest joke: That our Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has called on the government of Burma to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from jail.
This story is especially relevant to the 1.5 million Pakistanis who are sleeping in the wilderness now thanks to the anti-Pakistan scheming of the Americans and their poodles [Britain, Karzai, India] in Afghanistan. Mr. Qureshi has no time to raise the issue of the weapons and money coming from Afghanistan to the terrorists inside Pakistan. No, he has no time for this. But he has all the time in the world to worry about Ms. Kyi's health. What a compassionate man.
Here's my reaction on the statement: Ha ha ha ha ha.
No really.
What is Pakistani Foreign Minister's business in calling for the release of Burma's opposition leader?
Was Mr. Shah Mahmood Qureshi bored of the myriad foreign policy problems facing Pakistan that he chose to make a statement that obviously is none of our business and only seeks to appease Washington and London?
Burma's government has decided to put the lady opposition leader on trial because she basically is a tool in the hands of US and UK, the Am-Brit brigade. She is a tool pretty much like Foreign Minister Qureshi's own government and his own boss, President Zardari.
This partially explains why Mr. Qureshi stuck his nose where it doesn't belong.
But there is another explanation.
Burma's government has excellent relations with China and Pakistan, and not with the Am-Brit brigade, US and UK. The free press in Washington and London keeps the story of Ms. Suu Kyi alive because this way they keep the pressure on Burma's government. The usual pretext of human rights and democracy is used for this Am-Brit interference.
Pakistan supports the government of Burma since we have no problem with them and it is none of our business what they do to the lady opposition leader who's basically an American poodle, or ... I'm sure you get what the appropriate word here is.
The only reason I can think of that made Pakistani Foreign Minister Qureshi issue this unusual statement is because that's what Washington wants.
This would also be a clear signal to Beijing that Islamabad is firmly in the US orbit. The Burmese government would also be in a shock because they thought Pakistan supported them since like us they are also sick and tired of Indian arrogance and often take joy in cutting India down to size in their own ways.
Mr. Qureshi had more urgent business to attend to than to interfere in Burma's internal matters. Besides the issue the of American double game against Pakistan in Afghanistan, Mr. Qureshi should have been more concerned about the statement issued by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization [SCO] and by a Russian official on Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. The statement basically endorsed the Am-Brit [American-British] propaganda on the safety of Pakistan's strategic weapons.
This appears to be an urgent business that begs Mr. Qureshi's attention. But no. Mr. Qureshi and his US puppet government is more interested in appeasing its masters in Washington.

India supports insurgent forces attacking Pakistan. “The Indians are up to their necks in supporting the Taliban against the Pakistani government in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” a former intelligence official who served in both countries said. “The same anti-Pakistani forces in Afghanistan also shooting at American soldiers are getting support from India. India should close its diplomatic establishments in Afghanistan and get the Christ out of there.”
Read the full article from Foreign Policy magazine, February 16th issue Laura Rozen
The CIA played a back-channel role in serving as an arbiter and vehicle for intelligence sharing in order to ease tensions between India and Pakistan after the Mumbai attacks, the Washington Post reports today. “In the aftermath of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, the CIA orchestrated back-channel intelligence exchanges between India and Pakistan, allowing the two former enemies to quietly share highly sensitive evidence while the Americans served as neutral arbiters, according to U.S. and foreign government sources familiar with the arrangement,” the paper writes.
Former U.S. intelligence sources concerned about the potential for the situation to escalate had brought the channel to the attention of The Cable a few weeks ago. A few days before Christmas, they said, the United States sent then Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell and veteran CIA analyst Charlie Allen, who at the time was a top DHS intelligence official, to India. Allen and McConnell were there to talk about Mumbai. Both have since retired and could not be immediately reached.
Also on the trip to India, another U.S. government official said on condition of anonymity, was Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. “It was a quick in and out trip,” the US official said, of the previously undisclosed visit of the three intelligence officials to India. “They got in on a Sunday [Dec. 21], and were out on Tuesday morning,” Dec. 23. McConnell had previously visited India last June, the official said.
But the former intelligence officers said the person the United States should be sending to defuse a potential India-Pakistani conflict is Defense Secretary Robert Gates. “The only guy in this administration they are likely to listen to is Gates,” one former U.S. intelligence official said. “He’s done this twice before.” Gates, who was then deputy national security advisor for the first President Bush, was sent to “talk the Indians and Pakistanis out of war” in both 1988 and 1990, the former official, who had been among those involved in briefing Gates at the time, said.
The former official said the message Gates told India is, “If you go to war with Pakistan, you’ll win. But your industrial infrastructure will be destroyed.” And the message Gates told Pakistan is, “If you go to war with India, you’ll lose. And at the end, you will not have a country.”
“Bob Gates was the cool hand in keeping the Indians and the Pakistanis from going to war during Brass Tacks (Indian military exercise) in 1987,” another former U.S. intelligence officer said, referring to when Gates was then serving as acting Director of Central Intelligence. “It was very tense.”
“They are constantly shooting at one another along the line of control,” the first former intelligence official said. “These little skirmishes risk getting out of hand. Both [India and Pakistan] feel they are great players at brinkmanship. But in fact they are terrible at it. They lose control very quickly. They don’t know where their people are and what they are doing.”
The former intelligence official strongly supported the regional approach to Afghanistan suggested by US special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke. “Afghanistan is a classic power vacuum,” the former official said. “Neighbors see it as point of instability to guarantee their own stability or an opportunity to score points.”
While the U.S. media has frequently reported on Pakistani ties to jihadi elements launching attacks in Afghanistan, it has less often mentioned that India supports insurgent forces attacking Pakistan, the former intelligence official said. “The Indians are up to their necks in supporting the Taliban against the Pakistani government in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” the former intelligence official who served in both countries said. “The same anti-Pakistani forces in Afghanistan also shooting at American soldiers are getting support from India. India should close its diplomatic establishments in Afghanistan and get the Christ out of there.”
“None of this is ever one-sided,” he added. “That is why it was so devastating and we were so let down” when India got taken out of Holbrooke’s official brief.
Holbrooke flew to India Sunday night after visits to Pakistan and Afghanistan. “Mr. Holbrooke … said he was shocked by the problems he saw in the country [Pakistan], which he last visited a year ago,” the New York Times reports. “He said he was especially concerned that the Swat Valley, a onetime ski resort about 100 miles from Islamabad, had been seized by Taliban guerrillas, who blow up schools, assassinate police officers and beat — or behead — those who do not adhere to their strict version of Islam.” On Sunday, the paper also reports, the Taliban declared a 10 day cease-fire with Pakistani forces in Swat valley.
The Post report, sourced initially to unnamed Pakistani officials, could be interpreted as an effort by Pakistan to prevent Indian actions against the country that some U.S. military analysts predict are likely before Indian elections this spring.
“The Indians are almost certainly going to do something before [their] elections,” said AEI military analyst Thomas Donnelly. “They will strike camps in Pakistan. They are really pissed about the incompetence of the response to the [Mumbai] attacks. …. It doesn’t look like the Pakistanis are willing to or even can do anything that will satisfy the Indians. I would really be surprised if something doesn’t happen, unless that changes. They got an election coming up in March or April. It will be an interesting test for the United States.”
A spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it would have no comment on travel taken by the DNI.
UPDATE: A Washington South Asia expert, among others, wrote to dispute the allegation made by a former U.S. intelligence official cited in the piece that India is aiding the Taliban, although he said such support may be going to other anti-Pakistan insurgent groups. “It doesn’t square with my observations/sources, even though lots of Pakistanis will say it is true,” one said. “The Indians have – by many accounts – had a longstanding connection with Baluch nationalists/separatists in Pakistan, but these are not Taliban and they aren’t active in Afghanistan fighting against US/NATO forces. So yes, India gives Pakistan grief (as Pakistan has in India), but I’ve seen no evidence that it comes from Pakistani or Afghan Taliban.
“As for the consulates, that’s a regular refrain from Pakistani government and military,” the expert added, “but there’s very little US evidence to support the claims of major Indian activity in these locations, which appear to be minor operations with rather few personnel.” The former U.S. intelligence officer who made the allegation said that U.S. policymakers do not require the U.S. government to collect intelligence on the issue.

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May 23, 2009

Baitullah Mehsud is rolling in dollars and has access to highly sophisticated light weaponry. He is also in possession of highly sophisticated communication equipment, or homing devices in other words. The Pakistan army has been asking the US for help in ‘taking out’ Mehsud and has on at least four different occasions provided the US with accurate information of his location over a period of twelve to twenty four after the US was informed, but he was never targeted.
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India would be better off trying to negotiate a state of peaceful coexistence with Pakistan, rather than follow a course that is bound to be self-destructive
Finally, some American analysts have acknowledged that New Delhi is actively involved in destabilising the Pakistani province of Balochistan. They have also come to the realisation that it is also funding some of the Taliban.
Foreign Affairs, a journal published by the Council for Foreign Relations in Washington, has published this discovery, supported by the large variety of speakers at a round table conference held recently in Washington.
The speakers at the conference included Christine Fair, a senior political analyst formerly at the RAND Corporation; Stephen Cohen of the Brookings Institution; Sumit Ganguly, an Indian-born American citizen; and Ashley Tellis, the author of “India’s emerging nuclear doctrine”, published by RAND in 2001.
When Ashley asked me to comment on his work, I wrote back: “You have provided India with a nuclear doctrine that no one in India could have come up with, and have legitimised it through the RAND.”
With such participants, the conclusion is indisputable, but the US chooses to consider the evidence inconclusive. Though not when the evidence is against Pakistan!
I am prepared to believe that Pakistan, through Bangladesh, is involved in supporting insurgencies in India. The reasons are obvious: India is a far larger country, with greater resources and, in due course, is likely to outstrip Pakistan, economically and militarily, unless bled constantly.
Indian involvement to destabilise Pakistan is less easily understood, except as a tit-for-tat response, because it cannot take possession of Balochistan, and if Pakistan implodes India will face disastrous consequences.
A tit-for-tat response has its own logic and, in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, many Indian analysts, convinced of the Indian military’ inability to gain a decisive victory against Pakistan, suggested this policy.
One of them, Bharat Karnad, ex-member of the Indian national security advisory board, even sent me his article for ‘comments’. However, if the outcome of such a policy is as obviously self-defeating in the long run; perhaps India would be better off trying to negotiate a state of peaceful coexistence with Pakistan, rather than follow a course that is bound to be self-destructive.
I am a reluctant believer in conspiracy theories, but the writings of Charles Ferndale, Norman Finkelstein, Uri Avnery and Israel Shahak — not to mention Noam Chomsky — have half-convinced me that central to the Israeli Zionist — mind you, all Jews are not Zionists; Jews have their extremists, just like Muslims and Christians and Hindus have theirs — survival theory is that no regional power in its vicinity should be capable of confronting it militarily. Thus Iraq’s nuclear capability had to be destroyed, Iran prevented from getting there and, since Pakistan is already there, it must be destroyed from within. If this be so, theorists contend that the US and India are unwitting pawns in the hands of Israeli Zionists.
That would explain a number of inexplicable pieces of information. However, many of these could also result from the ineptitude of the CIA, a conclusion I strongly subscribe to, as well as policies for short-term political gains by Indian politicians. Take your pick.
The vast, silent, and irrelevant majority amongst the Mehsud tribe have no love lost for Baitullah, the undisputed Taliban leader of their tribe. I am reliably informed that he is rolling in dollars and has access to highly sophisticated light weaponry. Now he could have got these from a number of sources; India, Israel, Iran, Russia, or even the US.
I am also reliably informed that Baitullah Mehsud is in possession of highly sophisticated communication equipment and what are presumably homing devices. That narrows the field a little: Israel, the US, or Russia.
I am also, not so reliably, informed that there are strong rumours afloat that Baitullah Mehsud has been in touch with the CIA.
We know for certain that the Pakistan army has been asking the US for help in ‘taking out’ Mehsud and has on at least four different occasions provided the US with accurate information of his location over a period of twelve to twenty four after the US was informed, but he was never targeted.
We also know that US drone attacks have been more successful in the last few months and that their kill ratio of militants to innocent people has increased dramatically in favour of militants killed.
However, if my information is correct, that there are less than twenty hard-core Al Qaeda personnel present in each tribal area, not a single one of them has been successfully targeted. In fact, almost all of the militants killed in the Mehsud area were lowly soldiers, many of them Uzbeks and, according to some Mehsuds, some of those killed included those who disputed Baitullah’s leadership.
With a puzzle as disconnected as this, the dotted lines can be connected in many different ways to lead to widely divergent conclusions. I will leave it to the readers to arrive at their own conclusions. However, I will adjure them to bear in mind that the US refused to target Baitullah Mehsud on a number of occasions, despite Pakistani requests and accurate information on his location for many hours, and that no really high value target has ever been hit in the Mehsud area.
Each time a hit on a high value target has been claimed, it has been refuted within hours, sometimes days, occasionally even months later.
I leave it to you to dot the lines, but this time I am almost certain that there is a conspiracy; let each of you decide where it leads.
This article is a modified version of one originally written for the daily National. The author is a retired brigadier. He is also former vice president and founder of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI)

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May 23, 2009

The Taliban visited the house of a local elder, Mehar Rafi in the Bijlee Ghar area of Kalam but, as there were no men inside the house, the women climbed to the rooftop of the house and opened fire. Five Taliban were killed at the scene.
An attempt by the Taliban to infiltrate Kalam village was repulsed in the first sign that the army’s action is encouraging residents to stand up against the militants. Kalam’s deputy mayor, Shamshad Haqqai, said that about 50 Taliban fighters tried to enter Kalam on Wednesday but that locals had fought them off.
The militants had come to the village to collect arms, ammunition and food.
Muhammadi Room, a Kalam resident, said the Taliban visited the house of a local elder, Mehar Rafi in the Bijlee Ghar area of Kalam but, as there were no men inside the house, the women climbed to the rooftop of the house and opened fire. Five Taliban were killed at the scene.
A doctor from the area, who did not want to be named, said a group of Taliban entered his clinic before taking him to a place were several fighters were injured. He said he treated the Taliban, numbering around six or seven, before being asked to leave.
Locals said the Pakistani security forces, which are involved in operation against the Taliban in Swat, had not yet reached Kalam to assist the revolt.
The army claims it has killed more than 1,000 militants and won back swathes of territory in Swat. But it faces stiff resistance and has ventured no prediction of when the Taliban will be defeated.
Authorities say the clashes have prompted about 1.9 million people to flee their homes, creating a humanitarian crisis that could sap popular support for the drive. Locals said an outflow had also started from South Waziristan amid predictions of a Swat-style operation in the stronghold of Pakistan Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.
At a donors’ conference yesterday in Islamabad, Pakistan’s allies promised $224 million in aid for people displaced by the offensive.

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We can't even begin to realize how lucky we are to have such amazing and brave people as our brothers and sisters... اللہ اکبر

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A Family tells how Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan forcefully married their daughters & Pakistan Army saved them. "This is a short video of a family from SWAT which tells how Zionist funded Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan forcefully married their daughters. When the father resisted, they tried to kill him and kidnap his daughters but الحمد اللہ Pakistan Army saved them and now they are in safe place."

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BAINI BABA ZIARAT: The ridge overlooking the valley afforded a spectacular view of the enchanting Swat region. It would have been unthinkable a few weeks ago that such idyllic surroundings could one day shelter a band of desperadoes.
A labyrinth of caves and underground bunkers shield the Taliban from the blitz carried out by the military.
“It was very difficult to dislodge them from that height,” said Brigadier Suba Khan, who led the assault on the strategic ridge popularly known as Baini Baba Ziarat.
After two weeks of ferocious fighting his men captured the height, 7,000 feet above sea level, on Wednesday — the military’s biggest success so far in the battle against Taliban in Malakand division.
“They fought to the last man,” said Lt-Col Mohamed Riaz, who led the final charge. Up to 150 militants were killed in the battle, described by the two military officials as the bloodiest since the government ordered the operation in Swat to reclaim territory lost to Taliban.
“Some 100 bodies are probably still buried inside one of them,” said Colonel Riaz, pointing towards one of the destroyed caves.
Baini Baba Ziarat was also used by the Taliban as a centre for training youths forcibly recruited by them. Mohamed Akhtar, a 14-year-old schoolboy, was taken to the camp five months ago to be trained as a suicide bomber.
“There were dozens of young boys in the camp,” said Akhtar, looking emaciated and frightened. Akhtar, who was rescued by the security forces, said: “At least three of my colleagues turned suicide bomber.”
After driving out militants from Matta and Khwazakhela, the two major towns of northern Swat, the forces are now pressing towards Peochar valley and Mingora town, where the militants are still entrenched. Normality is gradually returning to Khawazakhela town, a town at a critical crossroads linking Swat to other districts.
“The town is completely safe and people who fled the fighting have started returning,” said Maj-Gen Sajjad Ghani, who is leading the operating in northern Swat.
He was hopeful that residents would be able to return to Matta after two weeks. The capture of Matta, a Taliban stronghold, has enabled the army to soften up the enemy with heavy bombings in Charbagh, regarded as a bridgehead for advancing on Mingora.
Although the military has made significant gains, commanders held out little prospect for an early end to the fighting. “We cannot give any timeline for an end to fighting,” said Gen Ghani.
The main objective of the military operation was to dismantle the militants’ fighting machine and to wipe out their leadership, the general recalled.
The loss of Matta might have weakened the Taliban, but they are still putting up fierce resistance in some key areas, demonstrating their prowess to fight a prolonged war. “The hardcore militants would never surrender. We have to eliminate them,” a realistic but tough Gen Ghani warned.
Some senior militant commanders have been killed in the recent clashes, but the top leadership has come out unscathed.
Mullah Fazalullah, the firebrand whose inflammatory rhetoric has grabbed media attention, is believed to have made a number of narrow escapes. Other commanders like Shah Doran, Muslim Khan and Bin Yamin have also evaded capture so far.
According to military officials, a large number of Arabs, Afghans and Uzbeks have joined the fighting in Swat. Three Uzbek and Afghan fighters captured by the security forces were paraded before journalists recently.
Military authorities are certain the militants have a lifeline across the border in Afghanistan. The journalists were shown a letter from Mullah Omar, the supreme commander of Taliban, pledging financial and “moral support” to the Swat insurgents. Drugs and kidnapping for ransom are also believed to be a major source of funding for the insurgents.
SOURCE OF INSPIRATION: The effectiveness of the military operation has instilled confidence into non-combatants. The nation saw an inspirational example on Thursday when people of Kalam beat back militants who were trying to gain a foothold in the town. Earlier Bahrein had set the precedent.
“Such actions are helping the army,” Gen Ghani said. “The people are also coming to us with information about Taliban activities in their areas.”
Although the operation has restored a semblance of sanity to a hapless populace, it is still a long way to go before they feel so safe as to even think of returning home.