The bleak assessment
October 10, 2008 AN American intelligence report which casts doubts on the ability of the Afghan government to counter the resurgent Taliban must have come as a shock to President Hamid Karzai who never tires of blaming Islamabad for his regime's failure to curb terrorism in Afghanistan. Recently his Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta insisted that the battle against the insurgents in Afghanistan must be taken to its "breeding ground" in Pakistan.
