If we don’t negotiate with the Taliban, he will. So says Ahmed Rashiid in FT.com with a bottom line policy recommendation that the wounded White House won’t like:
If Mr Karzai and most Afghans really do want peace talks with the Taliban then that should be Nato’s focus.
“International concern is mounting because these audacious attacks by militants which penetrated the heavily secured army HQ in Rawalpindi, could well mean that in the future militants could try the same tactics to attack one of the sites that holds nuclear weapons. So far that is considered unlikely as nobody knows where the weapons are held, various parts of the nuclear bombs are kept in separate locations and the sites are guarded by three army divisions.”
–Ahmed Rashid: no end in sight for Pakistan’s struggle against the Taliban.– Telegraph (U.K.)
