Thursday, March 26, 2009

A Shot Across the Bows?

A1 article on sustained links between the Pakistani ISI and Taliban in today's New York Times. Argues that the mid-level links are deeper than might be thought and that little has been done to challenge them since the Mumbai attacks. Is this a warning shot from the Obama administration? Certainly, more explicit and public attacks are likely only to weaken the Zardari government still further by fuelling anti-American sentiment: the paradox is that pursuing US foreign policy goals might turn out to be the best way to prevent them from happening...?

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