Word: talibanism
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...guards, who are employed and controlled by war lords. “There are a lot of places where you can drive by in your tank in the middle of the day without getting shot at, but the people that you are driving by are more afraid of the Taliban than they are of you,” he said. Galasco, a senior military analyst for the Human Rights Watch, said he was optimistic that civilian casualties in Afghanistan might decrease due to the ban on cluster munitions, which Afghanistan signed despite protests from the U.S. While the focus...
...Afghan warlords largely responsible for assisting the U.S.'s ousting of the Taliban in 2001 are now deeply entrenched in Afghan society. They have positions in government, in the police, in the army and in business. Though they have largely relinquished their tanks and heavy artillery, most have been able to maintain their core militias in the form of private security companies, political parties or loose business networks. Allegations of land grabs, rape, murder and kidnapping are rife. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Afghan human rights organizations such as Samimi's have documented extortion rackets run by former warlords...
...political weakness is not confined to having to defer to the military in all national security matters; he's had a hard time selling Pakistanis in general on the need to wage war on the extremists. The majority of his fellow citizens oppose cooperation with U.S. efforts against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Even after the Marriott bombing, Pakistan's parliament called for negotiations rather than force to be the dominant response to the militants...
...missile strikes on Taliban suspects in the tribal areas have escalated Pakistani hostility to the war on terror, and opposition parties are none too happy about the prospect of their government cooperating with India over the Mumbai massacre. Many Pakistanis see any move to accede to India's public demands as an unwarranted admission of guilt. And any large-scale move against Pakistan-based militants could bring a sharp reaction on the streets. Zardari's government is in a particularly precarious position now that it has been forced to seek an International Monetary Fund bailout to avoid bankruptcy - the conditions...
...fitful performance of Pakistan's military in response to pressure from the U.S. over Afghanistan is not exactly encouraging. As if to underscore the leverage it retains, Pakistan has also declared that escalating tension with India over the Mumbai terror could prompt it to move troops fighting the Taliban near the Afghan border to the frontier with India - a disastrous prospect for U.S. efforts to contain the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan...