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| Pak establishment helping terrorists including Taliban and Al Qaeda,say reports | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 24: Despite the US having created a one billion dollar counter insurgency fund for providing material and training to the Pakistani troops Islamabad has announced that it would not be in a position to go in for multidimensional offensive against the terrorists.In his written press statement Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari,has hit back at the American critics of Pakistan's failure in catching terrorist leaders by accusing the US of having created the Al Qaeda and the Taliban during the occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet troops.
In fact Zardari has conveyed to the US Government that whatever steps had been taken by the Pakistani Army against the terrorists were sufficient and Islamabad could not go beyond a certain limit after its military offensive against the terrorists in the Swat valley and in South Waziristan.He seems to have expressed his Government's helplessness in targeting some top Taliban leaders,including Mullah Omar and Jalaluddin Haqqani.
Reports from across the border said that the US authorities have come to believe that terrorists had the backing from within the Pakistani establishment.The US President,Barack Obama,has conveyed to Prime Minister,Manmohan Singh,the American Government's determination to join New Delhi in its fight against the terrorist outfits,including Lashkar-i-Toiba.This view was repeated by the American President in a letter which was delivered to Manmohan Singh by Obama's National Security Advisor,James L.Jones recently.Obama has favoured close cooperation between the US establishment and Delhi in their fight against all extremist groups,including Al Qaeda,the Afghan Taliban,the Haqqani network,Lashkar-i-Toiba,and the Pakistani Taliban.Obama has gone to the extent of saying that the US Government will not ingore any ambiguity in Pakistan's relations with any such group.
However,political pundits and security experts in India are of the view that Islamabad cannot afford to abandon this ambiguity.In reality Obama wants the Zardari led Government to fight a battle within the establishment for purging elements within the Pak Army,its Special Service Group and the ISI which continue to support the anti-India Jehadi groups like Harkat-ul-Jehad-i-Islami,Jaish-e-Mohammad,Lashkar-i-Toiba and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen based in Pakistan and occupied Kashmir.
These political pundits are of the opinion that these pro-Jehadi elements within the Pak establishment have been so powerful that even former President,Gen.Parvez Musharraf,could not succeed against them.Later he preferred to buy peace with some of the extremist groups.Some of the extremist groups have been so close to the successive establishment in Islamabad that even the leaders of the banned outfits,including Hafiz Saeed of Jamaat-ud-Dawa continue to live a comfortable life in Pakistan.Soon after the Mumbai attacks the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on the Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Lashkar-i-Toiba but Islamabad continued to treat Jamaat-ud-Dawa as a charity organisation as it was providing free education and health care to the poor. Islamabad seems to have deliberately ignored that the Jamaat was providing these services as a cover to their terrorist activities.
Reports have reached Delhi and Washington that Tehreek-e-Taliban activists in Pakistan were being helped by the establishment in Islamabad and other pro-jehadi elements for countering attacks launched by the Pak troops and the NATO forces.These reports said that the recent terrorist attacks on some of the Pakistan's security and intelligence agencies was part of the plan prepared by the Jehadi elements within the establishment for terrorising anti-jehadi elements in Pakistan.Islamabad has realised that the US may not afford to annoy the establishment in Pakstan because the American troops besides the NATO forces need bases within Pakistan for launching operations against the Talibans and the Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.It is in this context that Pakistan has enjoyed the benefits of the military and non-military aid from Washington which has saved the country from facing worst ever financial crisis.
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