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...Bin Laden passed most of the civil war years in far-off Sudan, but after being expelled as a result of U.S. pressure he returned to Afghanistan in 1996. And the Taliban welcomed him as a hero of the anti-Soviet 'jihad' and a man who commanded both means and military expertise. Although their priorities were somewhat at odds - Bin Laden was waging a global ?jihad' against America; the Taliban was trying to build their Mediaeval Islamist state - the relationship between them became extremely close. One of Bin Laden's wives is the daughter of Taliban leader Mullah Omar...
...that Bin Laden and his Taliban hosts are the likely targets of a U.S. ?jihad' against terrorism, Pakistan's government is being pulled in two directions: The Taliban is essentially Pakistan's prot?g?, and many Pakistanis are fiercely supportive of both the Afghan militia and of Bin Laden himself. But Pakistan's key traditional allies - the United States and China, which is facing a Bin Laden-backed insurgency in its Muslim western provinces - have made clear that they expect Islamabad to do its bit for the international campaign against terrorism...
...interest lies not in Afghanistan, of course, but in driving India out of the disputed region of Kashmir. And the two conflicts are not unrelated. Many of the Kashmir guerrillas backed by Pakistan have been trained in Afghanistan - indeed, the 1998 U.S. cruise missile strikes on camps associated with Bin Laden reportedly killed five Pakistani intelligence officers and a number of Kashmiri fighters. And many of these groups identify with the Taliban and Bin Laden. Fierce support for the Kashmir insurgency remains an article of faith in Pakistani politics, but that has put the U.S. increasingly at loggerheads with Islamabad...
...Pakistani government finds itself caught between its commitment to help the U.S. and its commitment to the Taliban - the latter, together with Bin Laden himself, far more popular on the impassioned streets of Pakistan. Supporting U.S. military action against Bin Laden and the Taliban will inevitably spark a dangerous domestic backlash in Pakistan. But failing to support the U.S. effort will leave Islamabad dangerously isolated. General Musharraf finds himself at a crossroads, and very soon, something will have to give...