Karzai slams Pakistan ... but with what?

Aug. 11, 2010 - PRLog -- A few days after the Wikileaks' announcement of some 72,000 classified documents being leaked into the public domain, Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday urged his Western allies to destroy Islamist militant sanctuaries in neighbouring Pakistan, while an angry Islamabad described his statement as “incomprehensible”. As the Wikileaks' Afghan War Diary - a compendium of secret U.S. communications during the Afghan War between 2004 and 2010 - contained some 120 documents that "gravely implicated" Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI), accusing it of "playing both sides" by actively funding, training and deploying Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan, President Karzai thought that the time was opportune enough to make his views heard on the issue as well.

Hindustan Times, which gave full coverage to this news item, reports that President Karzai's remarks came just two days after Afghanistan's national security adviser, Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, called on the West to review policy towards Pakistan after leaked Pentagon documents pointed to Pakistani double-dealing. Now, before we delve into the subject at length, it must also be noted that Pakistan has made a lot of hue and cry about terrorist encampments near the Afghan border, as well as in Indian embassies, missions and consulates in eastern Afghanistan; but since Pakistan is not as 'stable' as Afghanistan and Pakistan's leadership is not as renowned as President Karzai and his team is, the world and news media organizations can easily overlook this. If Pakistan is accused of double-dealing, the parties making the accusation must recognize that at least Pakistan can deal; it can provide widespread security services to its people, it has sufficient forces and personnel to guard its urban areas and man its major transport and communications arteries. One-third of Pakistan's soldierly recruits do NOT desert the Pakistan Army right after training, and 16% of Pakistan's police recruits do NOT test positive for serious drugs like heroin.

Yet, in the ultimate analysis, much less has been said - or relayed - by Wikileaks about the conduct of the War by the United States, by NATO, and most importantly, by President Karzai's Afghan "government".

Spearhead Research Analysis - 11.08.2010

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