In January, two US emissaries visited Musharraf in Islamabad and discussed the possibility of expanding presence of US Special Forces in Pakistan. Although, apparently Musharraf has rejected the possibility of such an operation but the question is “how can a person who is patronized by US reject the demands of US? So came up another solution in the name of Kunar base.
In past US special forces have carried out clandestine operations and Pakistan was not even aware of it. We saw this when 80 innocent people in a religious seminary were killed in Bajaur tribal area in October 2006 by US predator drones which was claimed by Pakistani authorities that they carried out the attack whereas when the attack was carried out Pakistani authorities weren’t even aware of it. Similar confusion in the killing of Al Libi also suggests that US forces may have carried out the attack.
Now an American base in Kunar (which is few kilometers from Pakistan tribal area) will allow US Special Forces to carry out such clandestine operations without Pakistan's consent. This would certainly give rise to unrest inside Pakistan and would only increase terror operations inside Pakistan as a warning that the militants should be left alone.
We recently saw militants used improvised explosive devices near Peshawar to blow up a military convoy. Which was the first such incident of its kind in one of our cities. Previously, such events only happened in the tribal areas.
When militants occupied Pakistan's strategic tunnel, which connects Peshawar, the capital of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) to the cantonment town of Kohat in NWFP, their aim was probably to disrupt military convoys transporting supplies from Kohat air base to the American base in Khost in Afghanistan.
Recent unearthing of a militant cell in Rawalpindi suggests that militants were planning devastating attacks on military installations and terror operations in the federal capital of Islamabad.
Musharraf has stretched Pakistan to its limit in fighting proxy war for the US and has destabilized the whole country which leaves Pakistan fatally exposed to the militants.
Asim H. Akhund
In past US special forces have carried out clandestine operations and Pakistan was not even aware of it. We saw this when 80 innocent people in a religious seminary were killed in Bajaur tribal area in October 2006 by US predator drones which was claimed by Pakistani authorities that they carried out the attack whereas when the attack was carried out Pakistani authorities weren’t even aware of it. Similar confusion in the killing of Al Libi also suggests that US forces may have carried out the attack.
Now an American base in Kunar (which is few kilometers from Pakistan tribal area) will allow US Special Forces to carry out such clandestine operations without Pakistan's consent. This would certainly give rise to unrest inside Pakistan and would only increase terror operations inside Pakistan as a warning that the militants should be left alone.
We recently saw militants used improvised explosive devices near Peshawar to blow up a military convoy. Which was the first such incident of its kind in one of our cities. Previously, such events only happened in the tribal areas.
When militants occupied Pakistan's strategic tunnel, which connects Peshawar, the capital of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) to the cantonment town of Kohat in NWFP, their aim was probably to disrupt military convoys transporting supplies from Kohat air base to the American base in Khost in Afghanistan.
Recent unearthing of a militant cell in Rawalpindi suggests that militants were planning devastating attacks on military installations and terror operations in the federal capital of Islamabad.
Musharraf has stretched Pakistan to its limit in fighting proxy war for the US and has destabilized the whole country which leaves Pakistan fatally exposed to the militants.
Asim H. Akhund
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