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Ref:http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=9250
By Rauf Klasra
LONDON: The Americans threatening to launch attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas, have been advised to use "money" to buy the loyalties of the tribal chiefs instead of bombing them to turn them against al-Qaeda operatives, as Washington has already done in one Iraqi province by buying Muslim fighters.
It is being feared here that any American attack on the tribal areas—as predicted by Washington—might hasten the fall of the Musharraf regime, which according to a new assessment, has already weakened its position, after the restoration of chief justice of Pakistan. As if this was not enough, Benazir Bhutto has announced to end her ongoing negotiations to share power after the general elections of 2007.
The British foreign secretary David Miliband's visit to Pakistan to discuss the al-Qaeda issue with President Musharraf, has also generated a lot of interest in the British media.
The Guardian in its editorial has pointed out that the task at hand of Miliband was Pakistan's record in its fight against al-Qaeda and one which a British foreign secretary can do little about. Last week a US national intelligence estimate concluded that al-Qaeda had built a safe haven in the tribal areas of Pakistan and ever since war drums are being beaten, not least in the liberal columns of the Washington Post, for US forces to take action.
It writes that it is the last thing that the Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf, needs right now. The threat is that if Pakistan's forces fail to uproot al-Qaeda in Waziristan, US forces will. There are several problems with the assumption that US commandos can be any more successful than Pakistani ones in classic guerrilla country.[/B] US Predator drones have been hitting, and missing, al-Qaeda targets across the tribal areas for the last two years, and each time buildings have been levelled and innocents killed the Pakistani Army has had no option but to claim responsibility to avoid the charge that it is letting foreign forces operate on its territory. If Washington removed that fig leaf by taking overt action, it would only boost anti-Americanism and cement the president's image as a US loyalist.
The Guardian writes that there was a national consensus behind the storming of the Red Mosque. That would be lost if American forces joined the action. "Instead of bombing the tribal chiefs, their strategy should be to buy them off, as they have done in Anbar province of Iraq," it advises the Americans.
Pakistan claims that if it received actionable intelligence on al-Qaeda targets, the country would make use of it. Either the US does not have it, or it is reluctant to hand it over. Either way, the suspicion is that the military does not trust its counterparts in Pakistan's intelligence service.
It says Musharraf has a major political battle ahead after the reinstatement of the chief justice. "The surest way to hasten the general's demise would be to deploy forces on his patch," The Guardian warns the Americans.
Ref:http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=9250
By Rauf Klasra
LONDON: The Americans threatening to launch attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas, have been advised to use "money" to buy the loyalties of the tribal chiefs instead of bombing them to turn them against al-Qaeda operatives, as Washington has already done in one Iraqi province by buying Muslim fighters.
It is being feared here that any American attack on the tribal areas—as predicted by Washington—might hasten the fall of the Musharraf regime, which according to a new assessment, has already weakened its position, after the restoration of chief justice of Pakistan. As if this was not enough, Benazir Bhutto has announced to end her ongoing negotiations to share power after the general elections of 2007.
The British foreign secretary David Miliband's visit to Pakistan to discuss the al-Qaeda issue with President Musharraf, has also generated a lot of interest in the British media.
The Guardian in its editorial has pointed out that the task at hand of Miliband was Pakistan's record in its fight against al-Qaeda and one which a British foreign secretary can do little about. Last week a US national intelligence estimate concluded that al-Qaeda had built a safe haven in the tribal areas of Pakistan and ever since war drums are being beaten, not least in the liberal columns of the Washington Post, for US forces to take action.
It writes that it is the last thing that the Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf, needs right now. The threat is that if Pakistan's forces fail to uproot al-Qaeda in Waziristan, US forces will. There are several problems with the assumption that US commandos can be any more successful than Pakistani ones in classic guerrilla country.[/B] US Predator drones have been hitting, and missing, al-Qaeda targets across the tribal areas for the last two years, and each time buildings have been levelled and innocents killed the Pakistani Army has had no option but to claim responsibility to avoid the charge that it is letting foreign forces operate on its territory. If Washington removed that fig leaf by taking overt action, it would only boost anti-Americanism and cement the president's image as a US loyalist.
The Guardian writes that there was a national consensus behind the storming of the Red Mosque. That would be lost if American forces joined the action. "Instead of bombing the tribal chiefs, their strategy should be to buy them off, as they have done in Anbar province of Iraq," it advises the Americans.
Pakistan claims that if it received actionable intelligence on al-Qaeda targets, the country would make use of it. Either the US does not have it, or it is reluctant to hand it over. Either way, the suspicion is that the military does not trust its counterparts in Pakistan's intelligence service.
It says Musharraf has a major political battle ahead after the reinstatement of the chief justice. "The surest way to hasten the general's demise would be to deploy forces on his patch," The Guardian warns the Americans.
if any air violation takeplace by usa by using force. in response of Dr. Shahid Masood's question is PAF capable to responed USA, he answered that PAF has no one but many capabilities to responed he also added that Pakistan is not Afghanistan who has no airforce or Iraq whose air force was on ground. he also told to Dr. Shaid Masood That some tribal leaders also announce that they will also responed with force to any attack against tribal areas by USA forces.
