Neutralizing Taliban with Tribal Lashkars
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Daily Times, Pakistan, Thursday, July 23, 2009
Funnelling arms and pledging support to Pashtun tribesmen in one of the world’s most unstable and militarised regions is a recipe for blowback. Several decades ago, during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Pakistani and American guns and money poured into the same tribal areas, spawning some of the very militants sought by Islamabad and Washington today.
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Funnelling arms and pledging support to Pashtun tribesmen in one of the world’s most unstable and militarised regions is a recipe for blowback. Several decades ago, during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Pakistani and American guns and money poured into the same tribal areas, spawning some of the very militants sought by Islamabad and Washington today.
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