RAND: Pakistan Govt Groups Aid Taliban

[unhappycamper]

RAND: Pakistan Govt Groups Aid Taliban
June 10, 2008
Agence France-Presse

Members of Pakistan's intelligence services and its paramilitaries are supporting Taliban insurgents who enter Afghanistan to attack U.S. and NATO forces, a U.S. think-tank said in a report released June 9.

The study by the RAND corporation, funded by the Department of Defense, finds that if Taliban bases in Pakistan are not eliminated, the forces supporting the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai "will face crippling long-term consequences in their effort to stabilize and rebuild Afghanistan."

The study, titled "Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan," says that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate and paramilitary Frontier Corps "have failed to root out Afghan insurgent groups based in Pakistan and, in some cases, individuals from these Pakistani organizations have provided direct assistance to such groups as the Taliban and Haqqani network."

According to the report's author, Seth Jones, the Taliban and other groups "are getting help from individuals in Pakistan's government, and until that ends, the region's long-term security is in jeopardy."

Other groups such as Al-Qaeda and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's radical Islamic Hezb-i-Islami organization are also getting support in Pakistan, according to the study.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/news/article/rand-pakistan-govt-groups-aid-taliban.html

[htuttle]

1. Given that the Pakistan's ISI created the Taliban in the first place...

Duh.

[cap]

2. we are already sending troops into Pakistan

it's just not widely publicized. There is a memorial banner near my county seat that memorializes a soldier who has died in Pakistan.