Amrullah Saleh: Afghans are ready but is Pakistan willing?

[pakistani342]

Our favorite Pakistani hater, Amrullah Saleh has penned an opinion piece on Al-Jazeera. Article here, excerpts below:

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For most Afghans - and perhaps for President Ashraf Ghani as well - the recent spike in Taliban attacks comes as a surprise following his official visit to Pakistan last month, where he took an unprecedented step by directly reaching out to Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif to help stem the insurgency and help push for a peace deal.

Ghani may have believed that by not espousing the past and ignoring the historic realities clouding contemporary relations between the two countries, he would get a promise of peace from Rawalpindi - the military headquarters of Pakistan's armed forces. Even cynics hoped this would reduce the level of violence, and open up the way for a strategic relationship and partnership between the two countries.

But this time, the Taliban were quick to freeze hopes for our side. In a quest to demonstrate their presence on Afghanistan's strategic landscape, they launched an unprecedented winter offensive by indiscriminately targeting foreigners and Afghans alike.

 

[WAJsal]

yah taliban want to create differences between pakistan and afghanistan as they see themselves failing it has triggered this wave of attack, hope to see a peaceful afghanistan

 

[Selous]

This Amrullah Saleh is a particularly venomous snake...he was a KHAD man and a supporter of Americans. He is corrupt, amoral and not to be trusted.
Morphing; KGB to KHAD to NDS | Pakistanpal's Blog

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

this guy is an irrelevant peasant...nobody cares what he says

 

[Syed Hussain]

We do not care about the words of one Afghan. What We care about is that Pakistan is very much responsible for the destruction of Afghanistan as We wanted it to be our "War Tool" that could be used in times of need against our enemies(just like We did to our own tribes of FATA) instead of a brotherly muslim country.
We accuse TTP of attacks in Pakistan & put blames on Afghanistan & Raw for supporting it but who supports Taliban attacks inside Afghanistan?(dating much old than TTP) if Pakistani dreamers think that Afghan Taliban are freedom fighter heroes & they never commit crimes & are pure angles.....I recommend them a tour of Afghanistan. Afghan Talibans have done more killing on ethnic & sectarian basis in Afghanistan than TTP did in Pakistan. Afghan Taliban have bombed more Mosques during prayers to hit Afghan Gvt officials than TTP has bombed schools in Pakistan. & the list can go on & on, We can't stat them heroes just because they aren't blowing us up...!

 

[Bratva]

In recent tripartite meetings at Washington, Islamabad and Kabul, Pakistani officials substantiated their allegations with solid evidence, according to sources. Afghan President Dr Ashraf Ghani, who visited Islamabad from November 14 and 15, was also shown documentary proof of activities of Pakistani militants on Afghan soil, they added.


Cross-border militancy: US to step up air raids on TTP men in Afghanistan


PESHAWAR: US authorities have agreed to step up air strikes, including drone attacks, on Pakistani militants sheltering across the border in Afghanistan.

In their meetings with US and Afghan officials, Pakistani officials repeatedly raised the issue of Taliban militants using the northeastern Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan as a launching pad for attacks on its security forces in the border regions, highly credible sources told The Express Tribune. Pakistan demanded action against these militants as they have carried out a number of cross-border attacks in Pakistan’s border areas of Dir and Chitral districts and Bajaur and Mohmand agencies.

In recent tripartite meetings at Washington, Islamabad and Kabul, Pakistani officials substantiated their allegations with solid evidence, according to sources. Afghan President Dr Ashraf Ghani, who visited Islamabad from November 14 and 15, was also shown documentary proof of activities of Pakistani militants on Afghan soil, they added.

Senior Pakistani security officials have also repeatedly raised the issue with their American, Nato and Afghan counterparts. They say that fugitive Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Mullah Fazlullah and his loyalists have been sheltering across the border in Afghanistan after they were routed from Swat in a military operation in 2009. Army chief General Raheel Sharif, too, took up the issue with senior American military and administration officials during his ongoing trip.

Sources said that US authorities have finally realised the gravity of the situation and started a hunt for three top Pakistani militant commanders, Mullah Fazlullah, Maulvi Faqir Muhammad and Mangal Bagh Afridi.

Maulvi Faqir is said to be in custody of the Afghan government, while Mullah Fazlullah and Mangal Bagh freely roam around in Afghanistan and mastermind terrorist attacks in Pakistan, especially in the tribal regions and parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 3rd, 2014.