Pakistan's resistance to having the Taliban regime replaced during the upcoming US war on terror confirmed that its initial offer of 'unstinted' cooperation was insincere.

It now appears that Pakistan is trying to preserve its own terror capabilities and will continue to export global jehad unless the war against terror is taken to the Pakistani military & intelligence which have been closely involved with the Taliban & Al Qaida.

President Bush has made a good beginning by targetinq the Pakistani terror group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and the Karachi-based Al-Rashid trust which acts as a financial front for the Lashkar-e-Toiba, another leading Pakistani terror group.

However, this war against global terror will be incomplete unless other Pakistani terror entities are also neutralized. Lifting of sanctions against Pakistan must be made conditional on an end to all of its jehad-related activities, and dismantling of its nuclear weapons, which it has used to blackmail India into submitting to terrorism.