Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Commentary: From AFPAK To PAKAF
From UPI:
WASHINGTON, May 18 (UPI) -- Barely born, AFPAK, the acronym for Afghanistan and Pakistan as a single theater of operations, has already been displaced. Pakistan is now the most dangerous of the two theaters, or PAKAF.
The heart of Islamic extremism lies in Pakistan. Almost all terrorist trails in Britain track back to Pakistan.
From independence in 1947 to the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan in 1989, Pakistan and the United States were close allies. Throughout the 1990s, Washington, convinced Islamabad was lying about its secret nuclear weapons program, inflicted draconian economic and military sanctions against its former ally. On May 11 and 13, 1998, India conducted five nuclear tests. Two weeks later, Pakistan responded with five nuclear explosions, triggering worldwide condemnation led by the United States.
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My Comment: I could not agree more. A few months ago I started to lump the conflicts in Pakistan and Afghanistan together. For lack of a better term, I also started to call it the AfghanPak War.
No more now. The Pakistan conflict is far more serious .... and for the moment .... far more bloodier.
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