Condy, Hamid and David holding hands in Afghanistan on Thursday. Friends kissing and making up after naughty President Karzai was unruly. Time to pow-wow, not about the Afghans dying in the freezing cold, but about the NATO forces, recently described as being in a “Strategic stalemate” by a former commander
Trouble is brewing at the border where Afghanistan and Pakistan merge into one, ahead of the traditional spring onslaught of militancy. Melting snow brings fresh attacks. The Pakistani Government is creating a large Council or Jirga with village elders to facilitate horse-trading during the election.
The Dawn reports that US military advisers are aiding the Pakistanis to double the numbers in their commando force, focussing on the tribal areas. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has written that the next attack on the US would probably be launched from here, the “under-governed regions of Pakistan.”
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