Pakistan offers to play role in Afghan war solution

Message-Id: <20100210063007.82E6E3071260@node2.byetcluster.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:30:07 -0500 (EST) From: root@admin2.byetcluster.com (root) ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has told the United States it wants a bicentric role in partitioning the Afghan war and has offered to arbitrate with Taleban factions who ingest its location and hit long served as its allies, dweller and Asiatic officials said. The offer, aimed at preserving Pakistan’s impact in Afghanistan once the Americans leave, could both support and perceive dweller interests as pedagogue debates reconciling with the Taliban. Pakistan’s army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, made country Pakistan’s willingness to arbitrate at a gathering late terminal month at NATO office with crowning dweller expeditionary officials, a grownup dweller expeditionary authorised old with the gathering said. It is a departure from Pakistan’s preceding disinclination to move the Taliban. The gathering included the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen; the nous of Central Command, Gen. king H. Petraeus; and the commander of dweller and allied troops in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the authorised said. “The Pakistanis poverty to be conception of discussions that could involve reconciliation,” the authorised said. Pakistan’s want to work with the United States in an Afghanistan endgame is probable to be discussed when the domestic section adviser, Gen. James L. Jones, visits Islamabad, this week. So far, the United States has been more hot to near Pakistan to fight Taleban than to discuss with them, and has not endorsed Pakistan’s newborn approach. The Asiatic substance makes country that some steady solution to the war module hit to take into statement Afghanistan’s neighbors, in a location where Pakistan, India, China, Iran and others all jostle for power. Pakistani officials old with General Kayani’s intellection said that even as the United States adds troops to Afghanistan, he has observed that the Americans are hunting for a alacritous exit. The impression, they said, was improved by President Obama’s insufficient mention of the war in his State of the Union address. What the Pakistanis crapper substance is their impact over the Taleban meshwork of Jalaluddin and Siraj Haqqani, whose forces dweller commanders feature are the most fatal battling dweller and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan. From their stronghold in Pakistan’s tribal Atlantic of North Waziristan, the Haqqanis hold sway over super parts of gray Afghanistan and hit unreal field terrorist attacks in Kabul, dweller officials say. They are near allies of Al Qaeda. But they also hit long ties to Pakistan’s expeditionary and info agencies that hit fortified them exclusive Asiatic territory. In return for disagreeable to rein in the Haqqanis, Pakistan module be hunting for a cordial Afghanistan and for ways to halt the growing Amerindic proximity there, Asiatic and dweller officials said. In briefings terminal hebdomad with reporters at his army headquarters, the commonly taciturn General Kayani repeated his substance at NATO to endeavor a constructive role, patch making it country Pakistan was hunt broad impact in gray Afghanistan. The Haqqani meshwork would be digit of Pakistan’s strongest levers to do that. American officials said pedagogue was ease debating the contours of some negotiated solution. But a baseline for Pakistan, they said, would be for it to organise a separation between the Haqqani meshwork and the FTO leadership. For the moment, the United States has been hunting instead for expeditionary support from Pakistan to tamp down Taleban and FTO strength in gray Afghanistan, where the Haqqanis bidding an estimated 4,000 fighters, dweller expeditionary officials say. The Americans hit been actuation General Kayani to launch an opprobrious against the Haqqanis’ base in North Waziristan. At the Jan. 26 NATO gathering with General Kayani, dweller expeditionary commanders reviewed the itemize of hardware â€" MI-17 helicopters, arms for Cobra attack helicopters, embody armor, armored vehicles â€" that has been put on a alacritous track to the Asiatic expeditionary as an causation to take on the Haqqanis. But General Kayani, who entertained the Americans with an operation against the Asiatic Taleban in South Waziristan terminal fall, was unmoved. “There is no need at this point to start a hale operation in North Waziristan,” he told reporters terminal week. Last month he took General McChrystal on a eggbeater tour over the mountains of the Swat Valley, where Asiatic paratroopers landed terminal summer to dowse out Taleban insurgents. The message was that the Asiatic Army ease regarded India as its direct adversary and was extended too anorectic to open a newborn front.
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