US-Afghan self-delusive strategy

Frustrated in coping with the insurgents in his own country, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's recent threat of targeting militant's locations inside Pakistani territories, just a few days after the US-led NATO's airstikes in the Mohmand tribal agency, killing 15 Pakistani paramilitary troops is, in fact, their self-delusive diplomacy.

In reply to Karzai's warning and NATO's aggression, Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said that his country "would not tolerate any violations of its territorial sovereignty". While, the foreign office statement pointed out that only Pakistan has right to "conduct operations within the country".

For more than 7 years, world's most well-trained troops of the US-led NATO, equipped with sophisticated weaponry have badly failed in crushing the stiff resistance of the Afghan Taliban who have been fighting against the occupying forces. The coalition forces and Karzai's regime could not provide security to the population in the wake of the continuing events of suicide attacks and kidnappings. The latest sophisticated Taliban assault on Kandahar's prison on June 15 this year, which freed 870 prisoners, shows the intensity of the conflict and lawlessness in Afghanistan.