Kashmir News Network - Press Releases (11/26/2001)

For Immediate Release
Kashmir News Network
November 26, 2001

Kashmir News Network Questions Pakistan's Double Role in Anti-Terror War

Recent reports indicate that hundreds of Pakistani soldiers including military commanders were among the foreign fighters holding out in the northern Afghan town of Kunduz. New York Times and Press Trust of India reported that Pakistani military helicopters landed in the town on Nov. 22nd and evacuated those Pakistani commanders, even as negotiations over the final fate of Kunduz were being undertaken with Northern Alliance forces. CNN also reported that a Pakistani military aircraft had recently flown to Kandahar, now the center of residual Taliban and Al Qaida power.

These reports suggest that Pakistan has not completely cut its ties to the Taliban and other extremist forces in Afghanistan, and has been actively supporting Al Qaida and the Taliban against the US-led anti-terror coalition. This puts Pakistan squarely on both sides of the fence, a reality the Bush administration can no longer ignore. If Pakistani dictator General Musharraf can not prevent his military from supplying arms and personnel to Taliban-Al Qaida forces, what is the guarantee that he will be able to prevent it from supplying nuclear arms and other future aid to such terrorist groups?

With the war in Afghanistan winding down, the US should turn its attention to Pakistan itself, which was responsible for creating the Taliban and colluding synergistically with Al Qaida for the last several years. Pakistan’s terrorist training camps, its jehad-minded military, and its nuclear arsenal will continue to remain threats to the rest of the world even after Bin Laden and the Taliban have been neutralized.

Subodh Atal, Lalit Koul, Sunil Fotedar
Executive Editors

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Lalit Koul
Executive Editor
Kashmir News Network
Email: editor@kashmirherald.com

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