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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

India’s Dilemma: Help Pakistan stay together or help it to self-destruct?, War on Terror, NewAgeIslam.com

War on Terror
India’s Dilemma: Help Pakistan stay together or help it to self-destruct?
The Pakistan problem
Tavleen Singh Posted: Jan 11, 2009 at 0139 hrs IST
This promise has been paid for in advance. The administration of George W. Bush has paid Pakistan more than $12 billion since 9/11. More money will come if Pakistan can prove that it is serious about fighting the jihadi groups who shelter along its Western border. But, it is not simple for the Pakistani Army to persuade its soldiers to kill men who till yesterday were their brothers in arms. And, let us not fool ourselves into believing that the ‘rogue’ elements in the army and the ‘rogue’ ISI do these bad things. The Pakistani Army is a cohesive whole. If there are rogue elements, it is in the ranks of the jihadi groups, some of whom got disenchanted with General Pervez Musharraf and tried more than once to bump him off. The Lashkar-e-Toiba, we must remember, is not one of them. It has never been responsible for terrorist acts in Pakistan. So, let us not fool ourselves into thinking any of our wanted criminals is going to be extradited. If we want to try them in India we will have to go and get them ourselves.

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