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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (29547)9/15/2008 6:02:59 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Currently, a military alliance between Afghanistan and India is Pakistani military planners' worst nightmare. To thwart such a possibility, the Pakistani Army wants to retain the Taliban as proxies and is therefore reluctant to crush them.

Interesting thought, but in the long run doing this may bring about exactly what they are trying to avoid.

Afghanistan doesn't have much reason other than this to be an enemy of Pakistan. Its not going to try to seize Pakistan's territory, there isn't a particularly strong "cycle of violence", or ethnic hatred, or ideological rivalry between the two countries. But if Pakistan supports the Taliban against Afghanistan, and other Islamic groups against India, it may bring about this "nightmare scenario".
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