The Washington Post Foreign Service reported on 25 Feb 2010, that Pakistan will hand over the Taliban No. 2.
The Afghan government was the first to announce that Pakistani authorities had agreed to hand over several suspected insurgents whom
Pakistan has taken into custody, including the Taliban’s No. 2 leader.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a member of the Taliban’s leadership council, and other prisoners are “accused of criminal acts” in
Afghanistan and will be extradited, according to a statement from the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Why does this “news” make me scratch my head?
Reports of the Pakistani Intelligence Service (ISI) working with the CIA and rolling up Taliban leadership makes me wonder if the people being captured are truly hard core Taliban leaders or do we have a cleansing operation to rid Pakistan of uncooperative Taliban.
The ISI created the Taliban.
A Taliban controlled government in Afghanistan could be of immense value to Pakistan in any confrontation with India. Additionally, there is a Pakistan Taliban.
One of the reasons the Phoenix program failed in Vietnam was because the Vietnamese government used the program to eliminate political opponents.
Something smells fishy here
