Islamabad, July 5 (ANI): Pakistan should begin rethinking on the issue of Pakistani Taliban as unless the nation dumps its policy of supporting Afghan Taliban proxies, Islamabad will find it hard put to it to deal with their other home grown fanatics and terrorists, according to an editorial.
According to the Daily Times, the Pakistani Taliban as a group has the potential to wreak havoc within Pakistan, as it has been doing lately through its cross-border attacks.
Now that the US is set to relieve itself of the Afghan quagmire after the 2014 deadline, if the resumption of NATO supplies is in the interests of the US and Afghanistan, the decision to reopen the routes could imply a recognition by the Pakistani military of the undeniable nexus between the 'good' and the 'bad' Taliban, the paper said.
The NATO supply routes being restored after much heated and agonizing discussions and deliberations spanning over seven months and the apology over the Salala incident that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers being 'received' had indicated to a 'positive turn' in the strained Pakistan-US relationship, which has more or less settled the coalition support funds impasse.
The editorial also cited that though the Salala attack that created bad blood between the US and Pakistan was a serious incident and Pakistan demanded an unconditional and immediate apology, the time lapse due to the Pakistan government's decision to take the issue to parliament painted Islamabad into the 'ghairat' corner and made a resolution of the issue more difficult.
Pakistan has been compared to a crying 'wolf' by war analysts and critics as over the decades it has become a country which has managed to entrench itself in a full-blown war, with no resolution in sight, and has been embroiled in a conflict of a neighbouring country for which it does not have a justifiable provocation or justification. (ANI)
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