Return of the Taliban: What lies ahead?
By Shobhan Saxena,TNN
20 July 2008
Nightmare revisited
"It's clear now that like the LTTE, the Taliban is not only a terrorist organization, but they are also capable of fighting like a conventional insurgent force. They have really become strong," says B Raman, a former additional secretary of the R&AW. After the US air strikes on Afghanistan, says Raman, the Taliban retreated into Pakistan where they "regrouped, retrained and remotivated themselves to launch a new offensive". "While the US ignored Pakistan's nexus with the Taliban as it focused on Al Qaida and Iraq, the Taliban became stronger with the help of the ISI," says a renowned security expert in the region.
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