By Inder Malhotra
It is the Afghan-Pakistan border, especially Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA), that is the nerve-centre of mounting trouble for not just America and NATO but also this country. The writ of the Pakistan government doesn’t run there. The Taliban and Al Qaeda, enjoying sanctuaries and support from tribal chiefs, are able to launch the kind of suicidal attacks they did at the Indian embassy recently. Earlier, they had fought a pitched battle in an Afghan village with American and Afghan troops in which nine American soldiers were killed. Last month, more American troops were killed in Afghanistan than ever before. In fact, the number of American soldiers killed in Afghanistan is more than their fatal casualties in Iraq during the same month.
http://www.newageislam.com/india-at-war--mission-kabul-must-first-target-isi/war-on-terror/d/306
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