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The Independent, Thursday, 23 October 2008
War has come to the world’s only Muslim nuclear state. Not just terrorist bombs, but pitched battles bringing refugees down from the mountains and even into Afghanistan. In a powerful dispatch, Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich report on the conflict which has left 200,000 people caught between the Pakistani Army, the Taliban and the tribal warlords. Full Story
Supporters of Maulana Fazlullah, a hardline cleric who began an uprising against the Pakistani government, in Charbagh, a Taliban stronghold on the Afghan border
Afghan refugees wait for food before fleeing the Bajaur region
The Taliban set alight a World Food Programme warehouse in the volatile Swat valley
So an eight year war ends from where it started. But who is resposible of messacre of hundred of thousands during this campaign?
Time would tell about the reasons of USA being in this situation? If that has something to do with Pakistan’s policy change, why didn’t it happen much earlier than this?
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On Fox News Sunday (July 6), Bill Kristol recounted that in a 90-minute, mostly off-the-record meeting with a small group of journalists , President Bush “conveyed the following impression, that he thought the next president’s biggest challenge would not be Iraq, which he thinks he’ll leave in pretty good shape, and would not be Afghanistan, which is manageable by itself. … It’s Pakistan.” We have “a sort of friendly government that sort of cooperates and sort of doesn’t. It’s really a complicated and difficult situation.”
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