If US and India support Pakistan to fence Afghan border then i shall consider it a big pro Pakistan step...
I seriously think the drug barons dread such a step and the influence of drug traders in Afghanistan is being underestimated by all parties...the drug trade of Afghanistan is worth billions and they will have no problem in paying a huge amount of money to buy terrorists...they shall want to always have this instability and a ready supply of cannon fodder...
Most of TTP is also former criminals and the miracle of TTP in eliminating the criminals was a big PR stunt they pulled off...actually they made all the gangs join them and the public saw that as a new order in Tribal areas...it was a big drama...They are now a big Mafia which has tapped in on the instability and emotional turmoil which has always existing in Afghanistan...
The number of Kidnappings for ransom and all criminal activity is a record high ever since they came...
If Pakistan flushes them out of Waziristan, they shall operate from Afghanistan...that much is guaranteed...
The border needs to be secured...and it shall have to be fenced and many new posts would have to be established, it will not be 100% effective but shall make life much more tough for all such organizations...
Even though, emotionally I agree that US and India should build wall or something between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Why should India? Why should send our army to Afghanistan like NATO has and get killed?
India's current plan for Afghanistan only involves infrastructure building and even during building roads, Indians are getting killed. Now you are telling India should send people out there so that these Taliban can target more Indians. It is a waste of time, money and most of the Indian lives.
And tell me, if India helps in building some wall, what do you think would be the response from Pakistan media? Already, just because we have consulates, you guys say RAW is operating and running the country. If more Indians show up there, what will Pakistani media say? There will no good will that India will get and infact, many of the same people who were for it will say India should have bad intentions. When the ex-ISI chief is openly in the air saying that none of the attacks on US or India and other countries are done by Taliban and it self-perpetuated by Hindus and Jews, how can you think this would help? I am sure many people in the forum would agree with ex-ISI chief before they would agree with any Indian.
I think you have to understand India is not US. We donot have unlimited resources to waste. I think India should get prepared if Pakistani government falls and Taliban takes over. Infact, if we can build wall all the way between India and Pakistan that way, that Indians can "hope" to be safe. India should rather spend the resources to grow the country and its own infrastructure.
I think the only reason we are there in Afghanistan is because we dont want any airline flying to Khandar and have some high profile criminals escape from jails. And, later when asked for help, both Afghanistan and Pakistan claimed that they dont know where they have gone. So, thankfully due to US invasion Taliban is gone from Afghanistan and India wants as a friendly Afghanistan and doing all this spending to get some good will.
But tell me how can India ever expect any good will from Pakistan. Pakistan attacked India in Kargil just two months after new friendship bus service was started. Then, with all the evidence of some criminals in Pakistan openly engaged in Mumbai attacks and Pakistani government releases them. Even today in Pakistan, you can see donations made to wage "jihad" against India. So where is the goodwill?
India is a poor country with only 1000GDP/capita and while going through worst recessions in the recent memory, India should try to save its own people rather than sending our troops to die only then to gain contempt from Pakistani people for helping them.