ONWARD ISLAMIST SOLDIERS: The Taliban's advance has brought out the folly of the Swat deal
The United States intervened to free Afghanistan from the Taliban. It may end up handing Taliban a nuclear-armed Pakistan. In the battle for Pakistan, though the Pakistan Army seems to have joined the battle now, the Taliban have reached 60 kilometres from the capital, Islamabad. Yet until just a few days ago the impression was that Pakistan's newly-elected democratic government has been constantly ceding ground. First FATA, then Swat, now the nearby towns and the adjoining Buner district. Even now many objective observers both within Pakistan and outside have very serious doubts if the Army has really killed the 700-odd Taliban it claims to have. Journalists in press conferences in Islamabad have asked to be shown the bodies. They have been promised photos. Yet, the question persists: Will the march of Taliban stop there? By no means, it would appear. With great candour, born of their tremendous self-confidence, the Taliban have already announced their real intentions. They want to rule Pakistan and establish their so-called Sharia in the entire country.
They know that a compromised Pakistan Army, with nearly 40 per cent of its cadre Talibanised, and not prepared to listen to the democratic government's dictates, does not have the wherewithal to stop their march. Taliban's retreat from Buner under intense U.S. pressure on Islamabad is only a tactical ploy to be undone at a more convenient time. It is clear that if at all the Pakistan Army is fighting, it is doing so under US pressure so as not to jeopardise the massive injunction of American funds into the Pakistan economy and its own coffers.
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