Washington:
The Afghan-Pak policy of the Obama Administration is flawed, which has only united the various terrorist groups in the region who have now created an alliance, former Pakistani envoy to the US Maleeha Lodhi has said.
"If the flawed concept of Afghan-Pakistan has achieved anything at all so far, it has done so by uniting the militants on both sides of the border in a new alliance to resist the impending military troop deployments in southern Afghanistan," said Lodhi while delivering a key-note address at the National Defence University.
"For now, the militants have read Afghan-Pakistan very quickly and have created an alliance which did not exist before," added Lodhi.
Observing that the various elements of Pakistan Taliban were never united, and certainly now always united with the objectives of Afghan Taliban, Lodhi said: "Today they are. They are because they wish to focus their efforts in resisting the US troop surge in Afghanistan."
Lodhi said the Pakistani establishment too is not happy with the Afghan-Pakistan policy either.
"Islamabad also finds unsettling the notion or the concept of treating Pakistan's and Afghanistan's border region as a single theater of combat," said Lodhi.
"It is one thing to use this Afghan-Pakistan acronym or concept to urge greater coordination and great cooperation. It's quite another to deduce from this or conclude from this that one size will fit both because both countries security trajectories are different, the capacities are different, the nature of the threat is really quite different also," argued Lodhi.
"If the flawed concept of Afghan-Pakistan has achieved anything at all so far, it has done so by uniting the militants on both sides of the border in a new alliance to resist the impending military troop deployments in southern Afghanistan," said Lodhi while delivering a key-note address at the National Defence University.
"For now, the militants have read Afghan-Pakistan very quickly and have created an alliance which did not exist before," added Lodhi.
Observing that the various elements of Pakistan Taliban were never united, and certainly now always united with the objectives of Afghan Taliban, Lodhi said: "Today they are. They are because they wish to focus their efforts in resisting the US troop surge in Afghanistan."
Lodhi said the Pakistani establishment too is not happy with the Afghan-Pakistan policy either.
"Islamabad also finds unsettling the notion or the concept of treating Pakistan's and Afghanistan's border region as a single theater of combat," said Lodhi.
"It is one thing to use this Afghan-Pakistan acronym or concept to urge greater coordination and great cooperation. It's quite another to deduce from this or conclude from this that one size will fit both because both countries security trajectories are different, the capacities are different, the nature of the threat is really quite different also," argued Lodhi.
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