Does Zardari have the guts to “suck out the oxygen” from the Taliban?
Marriott bombing: a missed opportunity
Nirupama Subramanian
October 3, 2008
Soldiers deployed in the north-west frontier regions do not want to fight the Taliban because they are fellow Muslims. And among the people, the view persists that the Taliban are “our misguided brothers” who can be talked back to the straight and narrow. All the country’s current problems will vanish, it is being said, if only Pakistan would assume a “neutral” position in U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, because it is “not our war.”
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