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...Taliban growing in confidence and feeling the wind at its back, the bad news out of the Afghanistan theater just keeps getting worse for the U.S. NATO commanders have long expressed frustration at the failure of the Pakistani military to prevent Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters maintaining sanctuaries in Pakistan from which they can launch attacks inside Afghanistan. But Pakistan's announcement on Monday of a peace agreement to accommodate the domestic Taliban insurgency in the Swat Valley suggests that an all-out war against militants on their soil is not what Pakistan's generals have in mind...
...desperate move to deal with an intractable radical insurgency, the Pakistan government said it will impose a form of Islamic law in the Swat Valley, located in the northwestern corner of the country. As a result, Islamabad's faltering military campaign there has been put on hold, and the militants have agreed to a tentative cease-fire. But many observers fear that, far from calming the conflict, the government has capitulated to the Islamist guerrillas and set a worrying precedent - one that will surely displease the U.S. officials who want the Pakistani government to take a harder line against militants...
...Richard Holbrooke, President Obama's envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, is reported to favor enlisting Tehran's help in the war against Afghan drug lords and their supply routes. That would be a smart call, says Sajadpour. Once fruitful dialogue and cooperation have been established on the issue of drugs, he says, "then you can gradually expand the scope [of talks] to include nuclear issues, Hamas and Hizballah...
...Long-standing differences could also erupt over the relationship of Pakistan's shadowy Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency with militant groups. Malik emphasized on Thursday that the suspects were "non-state actors" - a perspective shared by Washington and London. But Shiv Shankar Menon, India's Foreign Secretary, bluntly accused the military-led ISI of involvement. "The perpetrators planned, trained and launched their attacks from Pakistan, and the organizers were and remain clients and creations of the ISI," he told a conference last week in Paris, provoking fury among the Pakistani establishment...
...pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable Northwest passage...